frowst
noun/fɹaʊst/UK
Etymology
Back-formation from frowsty.
Definitions
Stuffiness
Stuffiness; stifling warmth in a room.
- I was pretty bad myself, but managed to move about all the time, for the frowst in my cabin would have sickened a hippo.
To enjoy being in a warm, close, stuffy place.
- The cure for this ill is not to sit still, / Or frowst with a book by the fire;
- […] punting a footer around the quad on a beautiful day like today, not frowsting in their studies.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for frowst. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA