Musty, stale.
1579.
| They soone myght be corrupted, | |
| Or like not of the frowie fede, | |
| Or with the weedes be glutted. | |
Spenser, ‘Shepherd’s Calendar,’ July. (N.E.D.) |
1856. This ere butter ’s a leetle grain frowy.—Whitcher, ‘The Widow Bedott Papers,’ No. 7.
1866. Mrs. Dayton is a decent housekeeper, and so her bread be not sour, her butter not frowy, the food abundant, and the table-cloth and dishes clean, she troubles her head little with the niceties and refinements of the ménage.—Mrs. Stowe, ‘Little Foxes,’ p. 117. (N.E.D.)
