frumpy

frump (fr

mp)

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.

frumpy [ˈfrʌmpɪ], frumpish [ˈfrʌmpɪʃ]

adj

(of a woman, clothes, etc) dowdy, drab, or unattractive

frumpily , frumpishly adv

frumpiness , frumpishness n

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Adj.

frumpy - primly out of date; "nothing so frumpish as last year's gambling game"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 frumpish

adjective dowdy, dated, dreary, out of date, drab, unfashionable, dingy, mumsy, badly-dressed, unhip (slang) I looked so frumpy next to those women.

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frumpy

adj (pej) → ohne jeden Schick

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demure dowdy fashionable frumpish	Withal, there was something so comfortable and motherly about her, the kind, wise eyes behind the gold-rimmed glasses were so misty with welcome and unspoken thoughts of the dear mother Rose had lost, that the girl went out to her sincerely even as she marvelled that the same years on the same farm which had given one person added polish and had made him even more good looking than ever, could have changed another so completely and turned her into such a toil-scarred, frumpy, oldish woman. Dust by Haldeman, Julius Mr. and Mrs. View in context Don't fancy me a frumpy old married woman, my dear; I was married but the other day, you know; I am dressed as a bride now, you see. Our Mutual Friend by Dickens, Charles View in context I have been a grumpy, frumpy, wayward sort of a woman, a good many years. David Copperfield by Dickens, Charles View in context	Fruiteress Fruitery Fruitestere fruitful fruitfully fruitfulness Fruiting fruiting body fruition Fruitive fruitless fruitlessly fruitlessness fruitlet fruitwood fruity frumentaceous Frumentarious Frumentation frumenty frump Frumper frumpily frumpish frumpishly frumpy Frunze frusemide Frush frusta Frustrable Frustraneous frustrate frustrated frustrated cargo Frustrately frustrating frustratingly frustration Frustrative Frustratory frustule Frustulent frustum Frutage frutescent Frutex Fruticant fruticose Fruticous Fruticulose	Fruityloops Frulovisi, Tito Livio Frum from Birth Frum Jews in College frumentaceous Frumentarious Frumentation frumenties Frumentius, St Frumentry frumenty Frumkin, Aleksandr Frumkin, Aleksandr Naumovich Frumkin, Moisei Ilich frump Frumper frumpier frumpiest frumpily frumpiness frumpish frumpishly frumpishness frumps frumpy Frundsberg, Georg von Frundsberg, Georg von FRUNI Frunze Frunze Frunze Frunze Peak Frunze, Mikhail Frunze, Mikhail Vasilevich Frunze, Mikhail Vasilievich Frunze, Mikhail Vasilyevich Frunzenskoe Frunzovka FRUO FRUP FRUPAC FRUS Frusehexal Frusehexal Frusemide Frusemide Frush Frusid Frusid Frusol Frusol frusta frusta frusta Frustra est potentia quae numcquam venit in actum

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Withal, there was something so comfortable and motherly about her, the kind, wise eyes behind the gold-rimmed glasses were so misty with welcome and unspoken thoughts of the dear mother Rose had lost, that the girl went out to her sincerely even as she marvelled that the same years on the same farm which had given one person added polish and had made him even more good looking than ever, could have changed another so completely and turned her into such a toil-scarred, frumpy, oldish woman.

Dust by Haldeman, Julius Mr. and Mrs. View in context

Don't fancy me a frumpy old married woman, my dear; I was married but the other day, you know; I am dressed as a bride now, you see.

Our Mutual Friend by Dickens, Charles View in context

I have been a grumpy, frumpy, wayward sort of a woman, a good many years.

David Copperfield by Dickens, Charles View in context

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