Definition of "frouzy" [frou•zy]

• Fetid, musty; rank; disordered and offensive to the smell or sight (adjective)
• Slovenly; dingy (adjective)

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• "In the day-time, as you make your way along the narrow streets, you see them all at work: upon the pavement, oftener than in their dark and frouzy shops: furbishing old clothes, and driving bargains."
• "This occupation was, to take down from the shelves of a worm – eaten wardrobe a quantity of frouzy garments, one by one; to subject each to a careful and minute inspection by holding it up against the light, and after folding it with great exactness, to lay it on one or other of two little heaps beside him."
• "In damp weather, the place is rendered close, by the steams of moist acts of parliament and frouzy petitions; general postmen grow faint as they enter its infected limits, and shabby figures in quest of franks, flit restlessly to and fro like the troubled ghosts of Complete Letter – writers departed."