[
US
/ˈfɹəmp/
]
[ UK /fɹˈʌmp/ ]
[ UK /fɹˈʌmp/ ]
NOUN
-
a dull unattractive unpleasant girl or woman
she got a reputation as a frump
she's a real dog
How To Use frump In A Sentence
- Moving Houses was commissioned by the Kronos Quartet, but here it is played (in a revised version) by the frumpily named Ethel.
- We will all be 50 and I would like to look cool and trendy rather than old and frumpy. Times, Sunday Times
- But she also comes across as a humourless frump, needing constant cajoling from her husband to stay afloat.
- Once you get to a size 14 you find that most swimwear in the shops is dowdy and frumpy. The Sun
- It's as if she can't make up her mind whether she wants to be a siren, a vamp or a frump.
- And Law possesses the frumpy slouch of a man dissatisfied with his lot in life.
- Happily, designers continue to plunder the her archive with a riot of florals that look more flirty than frumpy.
- It's as if she can't make up her mind whether she wants to be a siren, a vamp or a frump.
- The frumpy church volunteer's first album, "I Dreamed a Dream," was the best-selling debut in British chart history and also topped the US charts.
- But with Tiffany gone, she no longer looked so dull and frumpy in comparison.