Synonyms for frump
Grammar : Noun |
Spell : fruhmp |
Phonetic Transcription : frʌmp |
Définition of frump
Origin :- "cross, unstylish person" 1817, perhaps from frumple (v.) "to wrinkle" (late 14c.), from Middle Dutch verrompelen "to wrinkle" (see frumpy).
- noun slob
- “The frump, as you call her, is usually a countess or a duchess,” with asperity.
- Extract from : « The Place of Honeymoons » by Harold MacGrath
- Frump,—the word calls up the exact picture; frump and fatuity.
- Extract from : « The Place of Honeymoons » by Harold MacGrath
- No one ever regained my favour by making a frump of herself.
- Extract from : « Hypolympia » by Edmund Gosse
- Billings waved his hand to the frump as he mounted the stairway inside.
- Extract from : « The Haunted Pajamas » by Francis Perry Elliott
- The frump now was to be worked off on me, and I was expected to stand for it.
- Extract from : « The Haunted Pajamas » by Francis Perry Elliott
- And this was the frump's father, and it was for him she was scheming to make a home!
- Extract from : « The Haunted Pajamas » by Francis Perry Elliott
- "And metathorax," chimed in the frump, her head close to his.
- Extract from : « The Haunted Pajamas » by Francis Perry Elliott
- "One bore, or one frump, can ruin a party," was a favorite saying of hers.
- Extract from : « The Way of Ambition » by Robert Hichens
- "To only two that I know of," responded Mrs. Frump, in a winning voice.
- Extract from : « Round the Block » by John Bell Bouton
- Mrs. Frump made her sentences short, to accommodate her breath.
- Extract from : « Round the Block » by John Bell Bouton
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