frowst

plural frowsts · alternative froust

1. Stuffiness; stifling warmth in a room.

   I was pretty bad myself, but managed to move about all the time, for the frowst in my cabin would have sickened a hippo.

   1916, John Buchan, Greenmantle

   Synonyms: stuffiness, fustiness

present singular third person frowsts · participle present frowsting · participle past frowsted · past frowsted · alternative froust

1. intransitiveTo enjoy being in a warm, close, stuffy place.

   The cure for this ill is not to sit still, / Or frowst with a book by the fire;

   1902, Rudyard Kipling, “(please specify the story)”, in Just So Stories: For Little Children, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, →OCLC

   1 more example

   […] punting a footer around the quad on a beautiful day like today, not frowsting in their studies.

   2016, John Owens, A Month of Sundays