frou-frou vs narrow

frou-frou

adj
  • Unimportant, silly, useless. 

  • Liable to create the sound of rustling cloth, similar to 19th-century dresses. 

  • Highly ornamented, overly elaborate; excessively girly. 

noun
  • A rustling sound, particularly the rustling of a large silk dress. 

verb
  • To move with the sound of rustling dresses. 

narrow

adj
  • Parsimonious; niggardly; covetous; selfish. 

  • Formed (as a vowel) by a close position of some part of the tongue in relation to the palate; or (according to Bell) by a tense condition of the pharynx; distinguished from wide. 

  • Having a small margin or degree. 

  • Having a small width; not wide; having opposite edges or sides that are close, especially by comparison to length or depth. 

  • Restrictive; without flexibility or latitude. 

  • Of little extent; very limited; circumscribed. 

  • Scrutinizing in detail; close; accurate; exact. 

verb
  • To contract the size of, as a stocking, by taking two stitches into one. 

  • To reduce in width or extent; to contract. 

  • To convert to a data type that cannot hold as many distinct values. 

  • To partially lower one's eyelids in a way usually taken to suggest a defensive, aggressive or penetrating look. 

  • To get narrower. 

noun
  • A narrow passage, especially a contracted part of a stream, lake, or sea; a strait connecting two bodies of water. 

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