different between fusty vs frowzy

English

Alternative forms

• foosty (Scots)

Etymology

From Old French fust (“wood”) (modern French fût), from Latin fustis (“a cudgel”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?sti/
• Rhymes: -?sti

Adjective

fusty (comparative fustier, superlative fustiest)

1. Moldy or musty.
2. Stale-smelling or stuffy.
3. (figuratively, by extension) Old-fashioned, refusing to change or update.
4. (of wine) Tasting of the cask.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:fusty.

Derived terms

• fustily
• fustiness

Translations

Anagrams

• yufts

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?a?zi/
• Homophone: frouzy

Adjective

frowzy (comparative frowzier, superlative frowziest)

1. Alternative form of frowsy
   • 1983, Peter De Vries, Slouching Towards Kalamazoo, Boston: Little, Brown & Co., Chapter 3, p. 34,

     Half the pages of the frazzled directory hanging on a chain in the musty old booth into which I furtively sidled had turned their corners back on themselves. Such books are like frowzy old broads who have been handled by a thousand men.

   • 1994, J. M. Coetzee, The Master of Petersburg, London: Secker & Warburg, Chapter 8, p. 90,

     It is a relief to be rid of him. But a frowzy, fishy smell lingers in his room.

Related terms

• frouzy

Further reading

• frowzy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.