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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--frowzy This week's theme: words to describe people. frowzy (FROU-zee) adjective, also frowsy, frouzy 1. Unkempt, slovenly. 2. Having a musty odor. [Origin unknown.] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus. -Anu Garg (garg AT wordsmith.org) "[CBC] has been grooming two series for a couple of years - Rideau Hall, about a frowzy former disco queen as governor general, and An American in Canada, about a vain U.S. news anchor who finds himself playing second banana on a third-rate Calgary morning show." Tony Atherton; An Unfunny Thing Happened On the Way to CBC; The Ottawa Citizen (Canada); Feb 27, 2003. X-Bonus Which of us is not forever a stranger and alone? -Thomas Wolfe, novelist (1900-1938)

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