| 单词 | frowsy |
| 释义 | frowsy (once / 14756 pages) adj Someone who's frowsy looks like a slob. If you go to a job interview looking frowsy, you're less likely to get the job than if you comb your hair and wear a tidy suit. If you sleep in your clothes so that you can roll out of bed in the morning and walk right out the door to catch a bus for school, you're in danger of looking frowsy. Frowsy people are untidy and scruffy — sometimes even dirty, with unwashed hair and grubby fingernails. Frowsy and its variation frowzy probably come from the now-obsolete adjective frowsty, "having an unpleasant smell." WORD FAMILYfrowsy: frowsiest, frowsily USAGE EXAMPLESShe mentions 1989’s Steel Magnolias, in which she played a frowsy southern misfit behind thick, horn-rimmed specs. The Guardian(Jun 21, 2015) There was silence now, as the Englishmen looked in astonishment at the frowsy creatures they had so lustily waltzed inside. Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five(1969) They are frowsy and wanting in the crisp cleanliness that a liberal supply of soap and water impart to them. Macgowan, J. (John), Sidelights on Chinese Life(2012) adj negligent of neatness especially in dress and person; habitually dirty and unkempt Syn frowzy, slovenly untidy not neat and tidy |
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