Obs. [f. frow, FROUGH a. + -ISH.] Frowzy, stale-smelling, fetid.

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1608.  Withals’ Dict., 286. He that is rank or frowish in savour, hircosus.

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1688.  Bunyan, Solomon’s Temple Spiritualized, xvii. Covetousness makes a Minister smell frowish, and look more like a greedy Dog, than an Apostle of Jesus Christ.

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