frump

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English

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Etymology

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Probably a contraction of late Middle English frumpylle (wrinkle), from Middle Dutch verrompelen, originally equivalent to for- +‎ rump +‎ -le.

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Noun

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frump (countable and uncountable, plural frumps)

  1. (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.
  2. (uncountable, colloquial) Unattractive, dowdy clothes.
    Get that frump off – it's horrid!
  3. (countable, dated) A bad-tempered person.
  4. (obsolete) A flout or snub.

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Verb

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frump (third-person singular simple present frumps, present participle frumping, simple past and past participle frumped)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To insult; to flout; to mock; to snub.
  2. 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.

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Etymology

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From Middle English frumpylle.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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frump (plural frampès)

  1. A sour ill-humored person.

Verb

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frump

  1. to chafe, scold
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References

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  • 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