frowst

/ fraʊst /

noun

1. informal.
   a hot and stale atmosphere; fug

Word History and Origins

Origin of frowst¹

C19: back formation from frowsty musty, stuffy, variant of frowzy

Example Sentences

"Fairly average frowst in here," he observed.

From Project Gutenberg

The smells, however, of onions or hot blankets or machine-oil or tom-cats or dirty bicycles proclaimed emphatically that a community shared these ascending mustard-colored walls, that human beings passed along the stale landings to frowst behind those finger-stained doors of salmon-pink.

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"My hat, what a frowst!" exclaimed Maurice, rushing to the window and letting in the mist and the noise of the High.

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You liked shutting the window on a cold night and collecting a crowd and raising such a frowst that the air was solid and the windows steamed.

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A few minutes later one Dickinson said: "Please can we have the window open: there's an awful frowst."

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