frowst
/fraʊst
/British informal
noun [in singular]
A warm, stuffy atmosphere in a room.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 [no object]
Lounge about in a warm, stuffy atmosphere: don’t frowst by the fire all day...
- 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.
- There should be a healthy balance between exercise (mental and physical) and recreational frowsting.
Origin
Late 19th century: back-formation from frowsty.
Rhymes
- pulsate
- pulsatile
- pulsatility
- pulsatilla
- pulsation
- pulsational
- pulsation theory
- pulsative
- pulsator
- pulsatory
- pulse
- pulse amplifier
- pulse amplitude modulation
- pulse code
- pulse code modulation
- pulse coding
- pulse column
- pulse compression
- pulse curve
- pulsed column
- pulsed Doppler
- pulse dialling
- pulse-Doppler
- pulse duration modulation
- pulse frequency modulation