frump

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Some people looked forward to age as an excuse to become a frump, as if all along their greatest ambition in life had been to be drab and unattractive.

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  1. noun A girl or woman regarded as dull, plain, or unfashionable.
  2. noun A person regarded as colorless and primly sedate.

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  • It did not matter to me that it had cost several hundred dollars, if I looked like a frump in it. —  Madeleine An Autobiography
  • "Besides, " she chuckled again, -it gives me an appreciation for men who blurt out youre not a frump, and not some carefully rehearsed speech, who say it without even thinking about it, and who then go on to apologize for the vagaries of their sex. —  Exile's Valor
  • Poor Miss Kennedy was a frump, and could not manage any class of girls for more than five minutes. —  The Twins At St Clare's
  • Some people looked forward to age as an excuse to become a frump, as if all along their greatest ambition in life had been to be drab and unattractive. —  Men Don't Leave Me
  • My dear old furry frump, do you know anyone in the whole world who wouldn't swipe a few chickens if their children were starving to death?… —  Little Private Lives
 

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  1. Possibly short for Middle English frumple, wrinkle, from Middle Dutch verrompelen, to wrinkle : ver-, completely; see per1 in Indo-European roots + rompelen, to wrinkle.

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  1. English dial. in all senses; origin obscure. Cf. frumple.
  2. See the verb.
 

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