frump
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English
Etymology
Probably a contraction of late Middle English frumpylle (“wrinkle”), from Middle Dutch verrompelen, originally equivalent to for- + rump + -le.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fɹʌmp/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ʌmp
Noun
frump (countable and uncountable, plural frumps)
- (countable, colloquial) A frumpy person, somebody who is unattractive, drab or dowdy.
- You look like such a frump today!
- 2022 March 31, Alexis Soloski, “Why the Sudden Urge to Reconsider Famous Women?”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN:
- If you flipped through certain magazines at this time you could be forgiven for thinking that there was no right way to be a woman, only wrong ones — bimbo or frump, slut or prude, shrew or doormat.
- (uncountable, colloquial) Unattractive, dowdy clothes.
- Get that frump off – it's horrid!
- (countable, dated) A bad-tempered person.
- (obsolete) A flout or snub.
Derived terms
Translations
somebody who is unattractive, drab or dowdy
Verb
frump (third-person singular simple present frumps, present participle frumping, simple past and past participle frumped)
- (obsolete, transitive) To insult; to flout; to mock; to snub.
- 1617, John Fletcher, “The Chances”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
- Was ever gentlewoman So frump'd off with a fool!
- To assume a countenance or demeanor indicating irritation, ill-humor, or disapproval.
- 1982, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
- I told the guy "Well, now all I can do is come up with excuses" & told him I had to babysit. He frumped like, "Oh, shame!" and asked if I'd be there later.
- 1982, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
Derived terms
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Etymology
From Middle English frumpylle.
Pronunciation
Noun
frump (plural frampès)
- A sour ill-humored person.
Verb
frump
Related terms
References
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 40
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