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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- noun A girl or woman regarded as dull, plain, or unfashionable.
- 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
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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.
— 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?Â
— Little Private Lives
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- 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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/ (frŭmp)/
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