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frowst
/ fraʊst /
noun
- informal.a hot and stale atmosphere; fug
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Word History and Origins
Origin of frowst1
C19: back formation from frowsty musty, stuffy, variant of frowzy
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Example Sentences
Its charm is so deliciously old in this land, so deliciously young compared with the lovely frowst of Oxford and Cambridge.
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The places are heated but not aired, and the smell is horrid; but they seem to revel in "frowst."
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If you want to keep warm while travelling (to frowst, as the open air school calls it) do not get in with well-bred Englishwomen.
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I was pretty bad myself, but managed to move about all the time, for the frowst in my cabin would have sickened a hippo.
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It was a big place with only a tiny stove to warm it, and the windows were shut so that the atmosphere was a cold frowst.
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