frowzy (FROU-zee) adjective, also frowsy, frouzy

1. Unkempt, slovenly.

2. Having a musty odor.

[Origin unknown.]

Then a lean, slab-sided, rather frowzy-looking man, outwardly differing in no essential respect from the professional bronco-buster of the Southwest, slipped from the spectators' seats into the ring.

Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919). A Book-Lover’s Holidays in the Open. 1916, A CHILEAN RONDEO