frump

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It wouldn't do to go to St. Moritz looking like a frump, and yet there was no time to get anything sent from Paris, and, whatever she did, she wasn't going to show herself in any dowdy re-arrangements done at home.

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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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  • He'd dressed Hannah like a frump and ordered her to gain weight. —  AHMM,Jan-Feb2006
  • She was dressed in something black and simple from Paris that made every other woman there look like a frump. —  SCIENCE FICTION ADVENTURES MAGAZINE
  • It did not matter to me that it had cost several hundred dollars, if I looked like a frump in it If she did not like it, I would leave. —  MADELEINE: An Autobiography
  • If you didn't like the focus on birds and beer, you were easily classed as a frump and a drudge.
  • Unfortunately, Chico's, America's favorite frump-wear, wasn't Google-alerted to —  Jossip
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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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