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▪ I. frump, n.|frʌmp|
[Of unknown origin; possibly shortened from frumple.]
†1. ? A sneer, ? a derisive snort. Obs.
1589R. Harvey Pl. Perc. 4 You vse the nostrils too much, and to many vnseasoned frumps [to a man, as if he were a horse]. 1592Greene Disput. 24, I gaue him slender thankes, but with such a frump that he perceiued how light I made of his counsayle. 1650Trapp Comm. Deut. xxiii. 4 As God takes notice of the least courtesie shewed to his people..so he doth of the least discourtesie, even to a frown or a frump.
†2. A mocking speech or action; a flout, jeer. Obs.
1553T. Wilson Rhet. (1580) 188 You brought a shillyng to ninepence..and so gave hym a frumpe euen to his face. 1598R. Barckley Felic. Man (1631) 99 Esteeming those things as the frumps of fortune, which ye exalt above the skies and take for felicitie. 1616Beaum. & Fl. Scornf. Lady ii. iii, Sweet Widow leave your frumps, and be edified. 1651Howell in Cartwright's Poems b 8 b, They dash thee on the Nose with frumps and rapps. a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Frump, a dry Bob, or Jest.
†3. A derisive deception, a hoax. Obs.
1593Hollyband Fr. Dict. (Halliw.), To tell one a lie, to give a frumpe. 1668Davenant Man's the Master ii. i, These are a kind of witty frumps of mine like selling of bargains. 1791Pegge Derbicisms Ser. ii. (E.D.S.), Frump, an untruth, a story.
4. pl. Sulks, ill-humour. Now dial.
1668Dryden Evening's Love iv. i, Not to be behind hand with you in your Frumps, I give you back your Purse of Gold. 1678― Kind Kpr. i. i, Why should you be in your frumps, Pug, when I design only to oblige you? 1823Scott Peveril xl, When the Duchess of Portsmouth takes the frumps. 1823Moor Suffolk Words s.v., If insolent withal, she [a cross old woman] would be said to be frumpy or frumpish or ‘in her frumps’.
5. A cross, old-fashioned, dowdily-dressed woman. Also rarely, said of a man.
1817Godwin Mandeville I. xi. 261 They voted me a prig, a frump, a fogram. 1840Barham Ingol. Leg., Hamilton Tighe 97 All the best trumps Get into the hands of the other old frumps. 1859G. Meredith R. Feverel xlii, I looked a frump. 1888Rider Haggard Col. Quaritch I. 231 ‘Hang me..if she has not taken up with that confounded old military frump’.
b. said of a dowdy dress.
1886G. R. Sims Ring o' Bells, &c. ix. 229 She taught me..how to make pretty dresses..for half what my ugly old frumps of gowns..used to cost me.
▪ II. frump, v.|frʌmp|
[Connected with frump n.]
1. trans. To mock, flout, jeer; to taunt, insult, browbeat, snub. to frump off: to put off with jeering answers. Obs. or arch.
1577–87Holinshed Chron. II. 34/1 He taketh the man to be overlavish of his pen in frumping of his adversaries with quipping taunts. 1606Holland Sueton. 149 Whom..Caius was wont to frump and flout in most opprobrious termes as a wanton and effeminate person. a1625Fletcher Chances iii. i, Was ever Gentlewoman So frumpt off with a foole? 1655W. Gurnall Chr. in Arm. i. 116 God suffers somtimes the infirmities of his people to be known by the wicked (who are ready to check and frump them for them). 1753School of Man 288 How can your spirit bear that Aglae shall daily be frumping you.
¶ ?erron.1841Tait's Mag. VIII. 561 Conceiting himself, when he is only frumping the face of his own whim, to be beating..a whole world of buckramed giants into jelly.
†2. intr. To scoff, mock. Const. at. Obs.
1566Drant Horace's Sat. iii. B iij b, One Mevius did frumpe and floute at Nevie then awaye. 1583Golding Calvin on Deut. xiv. 81 These skoffers which are alwayes frumping. 1611Dekker Roaring Girle Wks. 1873 III. 202 We are but frumpt at and libell'd vpon. 1662Rump Songs ii. 60, I do not love for to frump. [1851S. Judd Margaret xvii. (1871) 148 The riders screamed, cross-bit, frumped and hooted at each other.]
†3. To sulk, be in a bad temper. Obs.
1693Southerne Maid's Last Prayer iii. i, My wife frump'd all the while and did not say one word.
4. trans. To put in a bad humour, vex.
1862H. Marryat Year in Sweden II. 59 Gustaf, frumped at the non-arrival of the Garter, placed the portrait of Charles Edward..opposite his own in the palace.
Hence ˈfrumping vbl. n. Also ˈfrumper, one who ‘frumps’.
1598Florio, Motteggiatore, a frumper, giber or iester, a quipper. 1611Cotgr., Mocquerie..a mocking, flowting, scoffing, frumping. Ibid., Mocqueur, a mocker, flowter, frumper. 1664Cotton Poet. Wks. (1765) 31 Pray young Man leave off your Frumping. 1677Holyoke Lat. Dict., A frumper, sannio. |