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frump

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5 lettersPronunciation /fɹʌmp/Part of speech nounSorted fmpruStarts with FEnds with P0 clues
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Definitions

  1. a dull unattractive unpleasant girl or woman

Word origin

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

Used in a sentence

  • You look like such a frump today!
  • Using the ideal of French female beauty as a stick with which to beat Britain's supposedly sexless frumps is a stereotype centuries old.
  • If you flipped through certain magazines at this time you could be forgiven for thinking that there was no right way to be a woman, only wrong ones — bimbo or frump, slut or prude, shrew or doormat.

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