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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

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

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To be rude to; insult; snub; rebuke.
  2. To fabricate or patch up (a tale).
  3. To be rude.
  4. To go about gossiping.
  5. To complain without cause.
  6. n. A taunt; a jeer; a flout; a snub.
  7. n. A lie.
  8. n. A dowdy woman or girl, particularly when also cross or ill-tempered; a hag.
  9. n. A gossip.

Wiktionary

  1. n. colloquial A frumpy person, somebody who is unattractive, drab or dowdy.
  2. n. The clothes that such a person would wear.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. obsolete To insult; to flout; to mock; to snub.
  2. n. obsolete A contemptuous speech or piece of conduct; a gibe or flout.
  3. n. colloq. A cross, old-fashioned person; esp., an old woman; a gossip.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a dull unattractive unpleasant girl or woman

Etymologies

  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. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • brtom "Transparent stockings, stretched to breaking point. Not like that frump today. A. E. Rumpled stockings."
    Joyce, Ulysses, 13 Jan 14, 2007

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