Usually means: Unfashionable, dowdy, old-fashioned in appearance.
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  1. frump: Merriam-Webster
  2. frump: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. frump: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. frump: Collins English Dictionary
  5. frump: Vocabulary.com
  6. Frump, frump: Wordnik
  7. frump: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. frump: Wiktionary
  9. frump: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. frump: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. frump: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Frump, frump: Dictionary.com
  13. Frump: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. frump: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. frump: Rhymezone
  16. Frump: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. frump: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. FRUMP: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  19. FRUMP, frump: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  20. frump: FreeDictionary.org
  21. frump: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. frump: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. frump: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. frump: Encyclopedia

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  1. frump: Urban Dictionary

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▸ noun:  (countable, colloquial) A frumpy person, somebody who is unattractive, drab or dowdy.
▸ noun:  (uncountable, colloquial) Unattractive, dowdy clothes.
▸ noun:  (countable, dated) A bad-tempered person.
▸ noun:  (obsolete) A flout or snub.
▸ verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To insult; to flout; to mock; to snub.
▸ verb:  To assume a countenance or demeanor indicating irritation, ill-humor, or disapproval.

Similar:
dog, flump, fugly, frumper, ugly, galoot, fuddy-duddy, scrump, scruffbag, daftie, more...

Types:
dowdy, dumpy, dowager, more...

Adjectives:
old, little, such, aged, fat, dowdy, perfect, awful, sloppy, poor, insignificant

Colors:
    beige,     taupe,     olive,     mustard,     brown, more...



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Similar:
dog, flump, fugly, frumper, ugly, galoot, fuddy-duddy, scrump, scruffbag, daftie, more...

Types:
dowdy, dumpy, dowager, more...

Adjectives:
old, little, such, aged, fat, dowdy, perfect, awful, sloppy, poor, insignificant

Colors:
    beige,     taupe,     olive,     mustard,     brown, more...



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