different between stuffy vs frowst

English

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?st?fi/
• Rhymes: -?fi

Adjective

stuffy (comparative stuffier, superlative stuffiest)

1. Poorly ventilated; partially plugged.

2. Stout; mettlesome; resolute.
3. (US) Angry and obstinate; sulky.
4. Boring, uninteresting, over-formal, pompous, very conventional.

5. (Scotland) Stout; sturdy.

Derived terms

• stuffily
• stuffiness

Related terms

• stuffed shirt

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Noun

stuffy (plural stuffies)

1. (US, Canada, colloquial, often childish) Synonym of stuffed toy

Alternative forms

• stuffie

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English

Alternative forms

• froust

Etymology

Back-formation from frowsty.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /f?a?st/
• Rhymes: -a?st

Noun

frowst (plural frowsts)

1. Stuffiness; stifling warmth in a room.
   • 1916, John Buchan, Greenmantle

     I was pretty bad myself, but managed to move about all the time, for the frowst in my cabin would have sickened a hippo.

Synonyms

• (stuffiness; stifling warmth): stuffiness
• fustiness

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Verb

frowst (third-person singular simple present frowsts, present participle frowsting, simple past and past participle frowsted)

1. (intransitive) To enjoy being in a warm, close, stuffy place.
   • 1902, Rudyard Kipling, Just So Stories

     The cure for this ill is not to sit still, / Or frowst with a book by the fire;

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