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frumpish, a.|ˈfrʌmpɪʃ|
[f. frump n. + -ish.]
Disposed to mock or flout; jesting, sneering; also, cross, ill-tempered.
1647Wharton Pluto's Progr. Gt. Brit. 15 Thy lowring scowling makes me dumpish, For to see my Love so frumpish. a1668Davenant Play-House to be Let Wks. (1673) 116 When Fortune frumpish is, who e're withstood her? 1757Foote Author ii. Wks. 1799 I. 155 Methought she looked very frumpish and jealous. 1820Keats & Hunt Keats' Wks. (1889) III. 35 Such a frumpish old fellow. 1882M. E. Braddon Mt. Royal I. ii. 47 The companion sour and frumpish.
Add:2. Esp. of a woman: old-fashioned or dowdy; of appearance, etc.: characteristic of a frump; outmoded, shabby, drab.
1847in Webster. 1889Mod. Society 12 Oct. 1271/2 Quite an elderly and superannuated look is given to the toilette which is finished off by a woollen cloud or silken shawl, and only invalids and sixty-year-old women should be allowed such frumpish privileges. 1939M. B. Picken Lang. Fashion 60/3 Frumpy or frumpish. Dowdy; untidy; poorly dressed. 1958Times 11 Sept. 9/4 Here is a creation..the most frumpish would scorn, a dress which, if ever it found its way into a shop, would be hidden away in the darkest, farthest corner. 1991S. Hill Air & Angels x. 59 We are a very closed society here. We are so far out, and I daresay we give off a slightly frumpish air—even conventual. We have very little male society.
Hence ˈfrumpishness n.
1889in Cent. Dict. 1983Financial Times 17 Mar. 23/1 Anna sings her first aria slumped on an overturned chair, wearing a Lady Billows hat... The spirits sink at this point, but such frumpishness is not general. |