frowsty /ˈfraʊsti/ adjective2 •(UK) Of an atmosphere: not fresh; close, musty, stuffy; of an object: having a musty, stale odour.He thought of getting back by half-past twelve, / And tot of rum to send him warm to sleep / In draughty dug-out frowsty with the fumes / Of coke, and full of snoring, weary men. — 1917 •(dialect, UK) Of a person: dull, slow; also, unkempt, untidy.Man, he says, was still "frowsty-minded" and "half asleep" in the early twenty-first century, still in urgent danger of a relapse into the confused nightmare living of the Age of Frustration. — 1933 formsfrowstier · frowstiest