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frump

1 ENTRIES FOUND:
frump /ˈfrʌmp/ noun
plural frumps
frump
/ˈfrʌmp/
noun
plural frumps
Learner's definition of FRUMP
[count] disapproving
: a woman who wears unattractive clothes or does not make an effort to appear attractive衣着邋遢的女人
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1
: a dowdy unattractive girl or woman
2
: a staid, drab, old-fashioned person

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web Dear Amy: My 24-year-old gorgeous, loving, and generous daughter dresses like a messy frump! Detroit Free Press, 1 Nov. 2019 Ostensibly a parody of 1950s social mores, the show actually gives us a familiar lineup of high-school cliches: The dimwit jock, the equally dim cheerleader, the frump, the nerds (male and female, each sporting glasses of course) and so on. Matthew J. Palm, OrlandoSentinel.com, 6 Aug. 2017

Word History

Etymology

probably from frumple to wrinkle

First Known Use

1817, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of frump was in 1817
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