different between frumpish vs frump

English

Etymology

frump +? -ish

Adjective

frumpish (comparative more frumpish, superlative most frumpish)

1. Poorly dressed; wearing drab, lifeless, ill-fitting clothing, or being clothing of this kind.

   women in frumpish dresses

2. (dated) Bad-tempered.

Usage notes

• In the sense of being poorly dressed, used to describe women more often than men.

Synonyms

• (poorly dressed): frumpy
• (bad-tempered): frumpy

English

Etymology

Probably a contraction of late Middle English frumpel (“wrinkle”), from Middle Dutch verrompelen, originally equivalent to for- +? rump +? -le.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f??mp/
• Rhymes: -?mp

Noun

frump (countable and uncountable, plural frumps)

1. (countable, colloquial) A frumpy person, somebody who is unattractive, drab or dowdy.

2. (uncountable) The clothes that such a person would wear.

3. (countable, dated) A bad-tempered person.
4. (obsolete) A flout or snub.

Derived terms

• frumpish
• frumpy

Translations

Verb

frump (third-person singular simple present frumps, present participle frumping, simple past and past participle frumped)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To insult; to flout; to mock; to snub.

   • Was ever gentlewoman So frump'd off with a fool!

Derived terms

• frumper

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Alternative forms

• frampès (plural)

Etymology

From Middle English frumpel.

Noun

frump

1. a sour ill-humored person

Verb

frump

1. to chafe, scold

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN