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单词 frowst
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Definition of frowst in English:

frowst

noun fraʊstfraʊst
British informal
  • A warm, stuffy atmosphere in a room.

    室内闷热的空气

    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.

    闷居室内,呆在闷热的屋里

    don't frowst by the fire all day

    不要整天闷呆在炉火旁。

    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:

frowst

nounfroustfraʊst
British informal
  • A warm, stuffy atmosphere in a room.

    室内闷热的空气

    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.

    闷居室内,呆在闷热的屋里

    don't frowst by the fire all day

    不要整天闷呆在炉火旁。

    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.

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