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frumpy

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frump  (frmp)
n.
1. A girl or woman regarded as dull, plain, or unfashionable.
2. A person regarded as colorless and primly sedate.
[Possibly short for Middle English frumple, wrinkle, from Middle Dutch verrompelen, to wrinkle : ver-, completely; see per1 in Indo-European roots + rompelen, to wrinkle.]
frumpi·ly adv.
frumpi·ness n.
frumpy adj.
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Adj.1.frumpy - primly out of date; "nothing so frumpish as last year's gambling game"
frumpish, dowdy
unfashionable, unstylish - not in accord with or not following current fashion; "unfashionable clothes"; "melodrama of a now unfashionable kind"
frumpy or frumpish
adjective dowdy, dated, dreary, out of date, drab, unfashionable, dingy, mumsy, badly-dressed


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