frumpyadj.
/ˈfrʌmpi/, U.S. /ˈfrəmpi/ Cross-tempered; also, like a frump, dowdy.
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the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill-naturedness > [adjective]
stour1303
thwarta1325
elvishc1386
wrawc1386
wrawfulc1386
crabbeda1400
crousea1400
cursedc1400
doggeda1425
currishc1460
disagreeable1474
dour1488
thrawn1488
terne?1507
apirsmarta1522
crustyc1570
incommodious1570
bilious1571
mischievous-stomached1577
thrawn-faced1578
thrawn-mowit1578
wearisha1586
shrewish1596
rhubarbative1600
crabbish1606
ill-tempereda1616
cur-like1627
thrawn-faceda1628
terned1638
cross1639
splenial1641
frumpish1647
wry1649
bad-tempered1671
hot-tempered1673
sidy1673
ugly1687
ornery1692
cankerya1699
ramgunshoch1721
cantankerousc1736
frumpy1746
unhappy1756
grumpy1778
crabby1791
grumpish1797
thraw-gabbit18..
snarlish1813
cranky1821
stuntya1825
ill-natured1825
nattery1825
rantankerous1832
foul-tempered1835
cacochymical1836
as cross as two sticks1842
grumphy1846
knappy1855
carnaptious1858
cussed1858
three-cornered1863
snotty1870
sniffy1871
snorty1893
grouchy1895
scratchy1925
tight1950
stroppy1951
snitty1978
arsey1989
the world > time > relative time > the past > oldness or ancientness > [adjective] > old-fashioned or antiquated > of persons, views, etc.
old-fashioned1596
musty1603
mildewed1605
fusty1609
wormy1611
frumpy1746
fossila1770
arriéré1814
has-been1819
Rip Van Winkleish1829
frumpish1847
archaistic1850
fogey1852
fogeyish1852
old fogeyish1853
rusty-fusty1864
mossbacked1876
dead-handed1928
Victorian1934
unhep1939
unhip1939
dinosaurian1943
square1946
dinosaur-like1947
dinosauric1977
analogue1993
1746 Clan Ronaldsmen in Jacobite Songs (1887) 238 The frumpy forward Duke.
a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Frumpy, having a sour and ill-humoured look.
c1840 J. 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.
1845 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 57 243 An old, faded, frumpy bonnet.
1850 C. Dickens David Copperfield xliv. 452 I have been a grumpy, frumpy, wayward sort of a woman, a good many years.
1882 M. E. Braddon Mt. Royal III. vi. 108 She was frumpy and dowdy.
Draft additions 1993
ˈfrumpily adv.
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the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill humour > [adverb]
distemperatelya1398
thraftlya1578
darkly1597
moodily1611
mustily1620
distemperedlya1639
sullenly1650
morosely1654
sullen1718
grumly1727
ill-humouredly1795
sulkily1796
sumphishly1850
biliously1865
glumpily1865
farouchely1931
frumpily1934
the world > time > relative time > the past > oldness or ancientness > [adverb] > in an old-fashioned manner
anciently1588
out1660
old-fashionably1764
old-fashionedly1808
frumpishly1927
frumpily1934
neolithically1934
1934 in N. Webster Dict.
1982 Economist 20 Nov. 49/3 Buckingham Palace..has frumpily scolded the press for ‘near-hysteria’.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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