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frowsty, a. orig. dial. (ˈfraʊstɪ) [Of obscure origin; cf. OF. frouste ruinous, decayed; also froughy, frowish, frowzy.] Fusty; having an unpleasant smell. (In Berks., Oxf., Leic., and Glouc. glossaries.) Also in Comb.1865 Athenæum No. 1960. 678/1 Use it on his frowsty head. 1881 E. J. Worboise Siss...
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frowsty
frowsty/ˈfraustɪ; `fraʊstɪ/ adj(derog 贬 esp Brit) (of the air conditions in a room) stale and stuffy (指房间里的空气)不流通的, 闷热的.
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frowstiness
frowstiness (ˈfraʊstɪnɪs) [f. frowsty a. + -ness.] Frowsty quality; fustiness, stuffiness.1923 Daily Mail 21 June 10 To clear his lungs of their over-night ‘frowstiness’. 1926 W. J. Locke Old Bridge iii. ix, The old frowstiness of dirt had given place to the fragrance of cleanliness. 1960 Guardian 2...
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his offer of a job to Loveday as a way out of their precarious existence in London which he described as "one filthy room in Fitzroy Street, a foul, frowsty
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froust
▪ I. frowst, froust, v. ? dial. (fraʊst) [Of unknown origin; see frowst n. 1.] intr. To take pleasure in staying in a warm, close, ‘fuggy’ atmosphere. Hence ˈfrowster.1884 Standard 5 May 4/4 A generation that frousts over the fire. 1889 B. Whitby Awakening M. Fenwick II. 182, I hate..frowsting over ...
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frowzy
frowzy, a. (ˈfraʊzɪ) Also 7–9 frouzy, 8–9 frowsy, (9 frousy). [Perh. cognate with frowsty, or with some of the other words there referred to. Cf. also frowze n.] 1. Ill-smelling, fusty, musty; having a ‘close’ unpleasant smell from being dirty, unwashed, ill-ventilated, or the like.1681 Otway Soldie...
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narcissistic
narcissistic, a. (nɑːsɪˈsɪstɪk) [f. as prec. + -istic.] Of or pertaining to narcissism; marked by excessive love of self.1916 E. Jones tr. Ferenczi's Contrib. Psycho-Anal. 174, I was just striving to make clear to a patient her excessive ambition, arising from narcissistic fixation. 1922 J. Riviere ...
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bingy
▪ I. bingy, a. north. dial. (ˈbɪŋɪ) [f. bing v.2 + -y.] Said of milk: In the incipient stage of sourness.1857 Mrs. Gaskell C. Brontë (1857) I. 70 The milk, too, was often ‘bingy,’ to use a country expression for a kind of taint which is far worse than sourness. 1884 Cheshire Gloss. (E.D.S.), Bingy, ...
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Betjeman
Betjeman (ˈbɛtʃəmən) The surname of John Betjeman (1906–1984), English author and poet, applied attrib. to a style of Victorian architecture that he is known to admire. Hence ˈBetjemanic, ˌBetjemaˈnesque, ˈBetjemanish, adjs., of or pertaining to Betjeman; resembling the style admired by Betjeman; ˈB...
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momento
momento (məˈmɛntəʊ) ? var. memento 3.1871 Geo. Eliot Jrnl. 19 Mar. in J. W. Cross George Eliot's Life (1885) III. xvi. 129 My present fear is that I have too much matter—too many momenti. 1951 Dylan Thomas Let. 12 Apr. (1966) 356 And the London frowsty Casino, a momento of which I enclose.
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