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frumpy, a.|ˈfrʌmpɪ|
[f. frump n. + -y1.]
Cross-tempered; also, like a frump, dowdy.
1746Clan Ronaldsmen in Jacobite Songs (1887) 238 The frumpy forward Duke. a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Frumpy, having a sour and ill-humoured look. c1840J. Mitford in C. M.'s Lett. & Remin. (1891) 181 He is as old-fashioned and frumpy as if he had never been out of college. 1845Blackw. Mag. LVII. 243 An old, faded, frumpy bonnet. 1849Dickens Dav. Copp. xliv, I have been a grumpy, frumpy, wayward sort of a woman, a good many years. 1882M. E. Braddon Mt. Royal xxvii, She was frumpy and dowdy.
Add: Hence ˈfrumpily adv.
1934in Webster. 1982Economist 20 Nov. 49/3 Buckingham Palace..has frumpily scolded the press for ‘near-hysteria’. |