frumpy
pronunciation
How to pronounce frumpy in British English:
UK [ˈfrʌmpi]
How to pronounce frumpy in American English:
US [ ˈfrʌmpi]
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- Adjective:
- primly out of date
Word Origin
- frumpy (adj.)
- 1746, "cross-tempered," probably from the frumps (n.) "bad temper" (1660s) and an earlier verb meaning "to mock, browbeat" (1550s), of obscure origin, perhaps imitative of a sneer or derisive snort. See also frump. Sense of "sour-looking, unfashionable" is from 1825, but this may be a shortening of frumple "to wrinkle, crumple" (late 14c.), from Middle Dutch verrompelen "to wrinkle," from ver- "completely" + rompelen "to rumple." Related: Frumpily; frumpiness.
Example
- 1. Disney animation is no longer the frumpy second fiddle to pixar . "
- 2. Long viewed as frumpy , dividend stocks enjoyed a vogue in recent years .
- 3. I suddenly felt very out-of-place and rather frumpy in my casual blouse and skirt .
- 4. Us president barack obama admitted tuesday he 's a little frumpy , but brushed aside suggestions that he sh ......
- 5. She always wears really frumpy clothes .