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Frumpish   Listen
adjective
Frumpish  adj.  
1.
Cross-tempered; scornful. (Obs.)
2.
Old-fashioned, as a woman's dress. "Our Bell... looked very frumpish."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Frumpish" Quotes from Famous Books



... Jane McPherson was a trying affair for her son. He thought that his sister Kate, with the babe in her arms, had become coarsened—she looked frumpish and, while they were in the house, had an air of having quarrelled with her husband when they came out of their bedroom in the morning. During the funeral service Sam sat in the parlour, astonished and irritated by the endless number of women that crowded into the house. They were everywhere, ...
— Windy McPherson's Son • Sherwood Anderson



Words linked to "Frumpish" :   dowdy, frumpy, unfashionable



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