Crossword clues for frump
frump
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Frump \Frump\, v. t. [Cf. Prov. E. frumple to wrinkle, ruffle,
D. frommelen.]
To insult; to flout; to mock; to snub. [Obs.]
--Beau. & Fl.
Frump \Frump\, n.
A contemptuous speech or piece of conduct; a gibe or flout. [Obs.]
--Beau. & Fl.A cross, old-fashioned person; esp., an old woman; a gossip. [Colloq.]
--Halliwell.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"cross, unstylish person," especially a woman or girl, 1817, from a group of related words of uncertain origin: Frump (n.) "a mocking speech" (1550s), "a sneer or snort" (1580s); frump (v.) "to mock, flout, taunt" (1570s); frumps (n.) "ill-humor" (1660s); frumpish (adj.) "cross-tempered" (1640s); and compare frumpy.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context colloquial English) A frumpy person, somebody who is unattractive, drab or dowdy. 2 The clothes that such a person would wear. vb. (context obsolete English) To insult; to flout; to mock; to snub.
WordNet
n. a dull unattractive unpleasant girl or woman; "she got a reputation as a frump"; "she's a real dog" [syn: dog]
Wikipedia
Frump may refer to:
- " Mr. Frump in the Iron Lung", a song on the album "Weird Al" Yankovic
- The surname of some of the characters in The Addams Family (1964 TV series)
- Donald Frump, an elephant character in Rocko's Modern Life
- Judge Horatio Curmudgeon Frump, a character in Tumbleweeds (comic strip)
- Babe Frump, NFL player
Usage examples of "frump".
The first frump blew my side window to the place I hoped that punk guard would go when he died.
He was face up on the carpet, legs twisted beneath him, a frump clutched in his hand.
I went through his pockets, found a couple of extra clips for the frump and kept them also.
I gently eased the steel door shut and used the butt of my frump to bust out the light inside the booth.
And when the first frump blast exploded a glass counter full of jewelry to oblivion, the place became a madhouse of screaming, writhing insanity.
Then he knocked on the partition again, and my frump was soon nestled back in its leather bed, safe and sound.
One of the white hats reached into my jacket and pulled the frump out of its home.
It would be her fate, her discipline, her cross, to have a frump brought hideously home to her.
Gereth had long ago generalized the truth that the temperament of the frump is amply consistent with a certain usual prettiness.
Phyllida, feeling a frump in the woollen dress, registered a firm resolve to go out the very next day and buy some new domes.
Maybe it was because she felt like the veriest frump sitting there on the floor in his splendid presence.
Gereth subsequently said, a hundred frumps, as well as a special train from town: the scale of the affair sufficiently showed that the preparations had been complete for weeks.
Lance Sheath and MuMu deCharraiveuneuirauville were quite obviously courting no, probably stalking was the better word cosmetics heiress Martha Whoopley, a stocky stodgy fortyish styleless frump with the face of a TV dinner and the personality of a humidifier and the ownership of eleven million dollars in her own right.
Martha Whoopley, a stocky stodgy fortyish styleless frump with the face of a TV dinner and the personality of a humidifier and the ownership of eleven million dollars in her own right.
I turned to see Cal Tarcher, dressed like a frump in a long skirt with a black, high-neck, long-sleeved silk blouse and ballet flats.