frumpnoun [ C ]
uk/frʌmp/us/frʌmp/disapprovinga woman who wears old-fashioned clothes that do not look attractive:
She looked like a frump in her shapeless skirt and flat shoes.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
People who are boring and old-fashioned
- bore
- Colonel Blimp
- crashing bore
- dinosaur
- drip
- fogey
- fossil
- has-been
- killjoy
- Luddite
- party pooper
- sad-sack
- spod
- spoilsport
- square
- stick-in-the-mud
- stuffed shirt
- wet blanket
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