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What (who) is frumpish - definition


frumpish      
a.; (also frumpy)
Cross, cross-tempered, cross-grained, snappish, irritable.
Frumpish      
·adj Cross-tempered; scornful.
II. Frumpish ·adj Old-fashioned, as a woman's dress.
Examples of use of frumpish
1. Even after the first few Potter books had made her a household name, the bespectacled Miss Rowling shunned the limelight and hid behind a frumpish exterior.
2. Whilst Shakespeare‘s play Antony and Cleopatra made reference to her youthful looks and ‘infinite variety‘ others have since claimed she was short, frumpish and in need of a good dentist.
3. Ive been brooding over a picture of Fergie taken after her marriage bursting out of a tartan suit, laughing her head off, undeniably fat, undeniably frumpish, but somehow engaging.