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Definition of frowst in English: frowstnoun fraʊstfraʊst British informal A warm, stuffy atmosphere in a room. Example sentencesExamples - The sleepy old man of Winter made frowst and fuddle, curled up in shaggy fleecy December pelts: a vast apathy held me safe and warm.
verb fraʊstfraʊst [no object]British informal Lounge about in a warm, stuffy atmosphere. don't frowst by the fire all day Example sentencesExamples - There should be a healthy balance between exercise (mental and physical) and recreational frowsting.
- I can't even imagine how I ended up there when I should have been frowsting in a cafe on the Kurfurstendam, having a coffee and a bratwurst and keeping myself warm.
- In ‘pushing the envelope’ the game is to see how many more minutes of frowsting can be done without the boss coming down on you for being late.
- Whilst frowsting in this refuge, I used to read the files on those boys, senior to me, who had been sent for to fill in their career forms.
- Five things were important in trench warfare, Orwell acknowledged as he frowsted in his dug-out high on the hills of the Aragon Front in early 1937: firewood, food, tobacco, candles and - a very bad fifth - the enemy.
Origin Late 19th century: back-formation from frowsty. Rhymes Faust, joust, oust, roust Definition of frowst in US English: frowstnounfroustfraʊst British informal A warm, stuffy atmosphere in a room. Example sentencesExamples - The sleepy old man of Winter made frowst and fuddle, curled up in shaggy fleecy December pelts: a vast apathy held me safe and warm.
verbfroustfraʊst [no object]British informal Lounge about in a warm, stuffy atmosphere. don't frowst by the fire all day Example sentencesExamples - There should be a healthy balance between exercise (mental and physical) and recreational frowsting.
- Whilst frowsting in this refuge, I used to read the files on those boys, senior to me, who had been sent for to fill in their career forms.
- I can't even imagine how I ended up there when I should have been frowsting in a cafe on the Kurfurstendam, having a coffee and a bratwurst and keeping myself warm.
- In ‘pushing the envelope’ the game is to see how many more minutes of frowsting can be done without the boss coming down on you for being late.
- Five things were important in trench warfare, Orwell acknowledged as he frowsted in his dug-out high on the hills of the Aragon Front in early 1937: firewood, food, tobacco, candles and - a very bad fifth - the enemy.
Origin Late 19th century: back-formation from frowsty. |