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What (who) is frump - definition
frump
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¦ noun an unattractive woman who wears dowdy old-fashioned clothes.
Derivatives
frumpily adverb
frumpiness noun
frumpish adjective
frumpishly adverb
frumpy adjective (frumpier, frumpiest).
Origin
C16 (orig. in sense 'mocking speech', later 'bad-tempered woman'): prob. a contr. of ME frumple 'wrinkle', from MDu. verrompelen.
Frump
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To hit someone over the head with a foam bat or racket.
I took up my foam frumping bat, and frumped him silly.
I took up my foam frumping bat, and frumped him silly.
Examples of use of frump
1. How Kate Middleton went from frump to fabulous 4.
2. Before her transformation, the Prince of Wales‘ wife, was dubbed dowdy and a frump.
3. In the mirror you see a dumpy frump in an ill–fitting skirt.
4. For the many young women who aspire to a Wag lifestyle – one look at Frank Lampard‘s fiancee Elen Rives‘ frump couture will soon change their minds.
5. New Yorks fashionistas are, of course, never satisfied, and one of the citys newspapers yesterday carried a picture of the duchess under the headline Frump Tower.