Word Meanings - FROWZY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Slovenly; unkempt; untidy; frouzy. "With head all frowzy." Spenser. The frowzy soldiers' wives hanging out clothes. W. D. Howells.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FROWZY)

• Musty
• Fusty
• rank
• mouldy
• frowzy
• stale
• sour
• fetid
• mildewed
• Rancid
• Sour
• tainted
• olid
• reasty
• musty

Related words: (words related to FROWZY)

• RANCIDLY
  In a rancid manner.
• STALELY
  1. In a state stale manner. 2. Of old; long since. B. Jonson.
• FROWZY
  Slovenly; unkempt; untidy; frouzy. "With head all frowzy." Spenser. The frowzy soldiers' wives hanging out clothes. W. D. Howells.
• FETIDNESS
  The quality or state of being fetid.
• MUSTY
  1. Having the rank, pungent, offencive odor and taste which substances of organic origin acquire during warm, moist weather; foul or sour and fetid; moldy; as, musty corn; musty books. Harvey. 2. Spoiled by age; rank; stale. The proverb is somewhat
• TAINTWORM
  A destructive parasitic worm or insect larva.
• TAINTURE
  Taint; tinge; difilement; stain; spot. Shak.
• TAINTLESSLY
  In a taintless manner.
• STALEMATE
  The position of the king when he can not move without being placed on check and there is no other piece which can be moved.
• STALE
  The stock or handle of anything; as, the stale of a rake. But seeling the arrow's stale without, and that the head did go No further than it might be seen. Chapman. (more info) steel, G. stiel; cf. L. stilus stake, stalk, stem, Gr. stall, stalk,
• STALENESS
  The quality or state of being stale.
• RANCIDITY
  The quality or state of being rancid; a rancid scent or flavor, as of old oil. Ure.
• FETID
  Having an offensive smell; stinking. Most putrefactions . . . smell either fetid or moldy. Bacon.
• RANCIDNESS
  The quality of being rancid.
• TAINT
  1. A thrust with a lance, which fails of its intended effect. This taint he followed with his sword drawn from a silver sheath. Chapman. 2. An injury done to a lance in an encounter, without its being broken; also, a breaking of a lance
• TAINTLESS
  Free from taint or infection; pure.
• FETIDITY
  Fetidness.
• MILDEW
  A growth of minute powdery or webby fungi, whitish or of different colors, found on various diseased or decaying substances. (more info) mehltau; prob. orig. meaning, honeydew; cf. Goth. milip honey. See
• FUSTY
  1. Moldy; musty; ill-smelling; rank. "A fusty plebeians." Shak. 2. Moping. A melancholy, fusty humor. Pepys.
• REASTY
  Rusty and rancid; -- applied to salt meat. Tusser. -- Reas"ti*ness, n.
• UNCERTAINTY
  1. The quality or state of being uncertain. 2. That which is uncertain; something unknown. Our shepherd's case is every man's case that quits a moral certainty for an uncertainty. L'Estrange.
• RAKESTALE
  The handle of a rake. That tale is not worth a rakestele. Chaucer.
• CERTAINTY
  Clearness; freedom from ambiguity; lucidity. Of a certainty, certainly. (more info) 1. The quality, state, or condition, of being certain. The certainty of punishment is the truest security against crimes. Fisher Ames. 2. A fact or truth
• ASAFETIDA; ASAFOETIDA
  The fetid gum resin or inspissated juice of a large umbelliferous plant of Persia and the East India.
• VESTALES
  A group of butterflies including those known as virgins, or gossamer-winged butterflies.
• HYDRA-TAINTED
  Dipped in the gall of the fabulous hydra; poisonous; deadly. Cowper.
• MOULD; MOULDER; MOULDY
  See ETC