[Connected with FRUMP sb.]
1. trans. To mock, flout, jeer; to taunt, insult, browbeat, snub. To frump off: to put off with jeering answers. Obs. or arch.
1577–87. Holinshed, Chron., II. 34/1. He taketh the man to be overlavish of his pen in frumping of his adversaries with quipping taunts.
1606. Holland, Sueton., 149. Whom … Caius was wont to frump and flout in most opprobrious termes as a wanton and effeminate person.
a. 1625. Fletcher, The Chances, III. i.
| Land. Was ever Gentlewoman | |
| So frumpt off with a foole? |
1655. Gurnall, Chr. in Arm., v. § 3 (1669), 46/1. God suffers sometimes the infirmities of his people to be known by the wicked (who are ready to check and frump them for them) for this end, to humble his people.
1753. School of Man, 288. How can your spirit bear that Aglae shall daily be frumping you.
¶ ? erron. 1841. Tait’s Mag., VIII. 561. Conceiting himself, when he is only frumping the face of his own whim, to be beating … a whole world of buckramed giants into jelly.
† 2. intr. To scoff, mock. Const. at. Obs.
1566. Drant, Horace’s Sat., III. B iij b. One Mevius did frumpe and floute at Nevie then awaye.
1583. Golding, Calvin on Deut. xiv. 81. These skoffers which are alwayes frumping.
1611. Dekker, Roaring Girle, Wks. 1873, III. 202. Wee are but frumpt at and libell’d vpon.
1662. Rump Songs (1874), II. 60.
| He might as well have stiled him Anus, | |
| Since he was the mouth of the RUMP. | |
| As cunning a Fox as Romes Sejanus: | |
| But I do not love for to frump. |
[1851. S. Judd, Margaret, xvii. (1871), 148. They skewed, bustled, and bumped along, the crates wabbled and warped from side to side, the riders screamed, cross-bit, frumped, and hooted at each other; they lost control of their crazy vehicles, their bows struck and parted with a violent rebound; one went giddying round and round, fraying and sputtering the snow, and dashed against a tree; the other whirling into the same line was plunged headlong into the first.]
† 3. To sulk, be in a bad temper. Obs.
1693. Southerne, The Maid’s Last Prayer, III. i. My wife frump’d all the while and did not say one word.
4. trans. To put in a bad humor, vex.
1862. H. Marryat, Year in Sweden, II. 59. Gustaf, frumped at the non-arrival of the Garter, placed the portrait of Charles Edward … opposite his own in the palace.
Hence Frumping vbl. sb. Also Frumper, one who ‘frumps.’
1598. Florio, Motteggiatore, a frumper, giber or iester, a quipper.
1611. Cotgr., Mocquerie … a mocking, flowting, scoffing, frumping. Ibid., Mocqueur, a mocker, flowter, frumper.
1664. Cotton, Poet. Wks. (1765), 31. Pray young Man leave off your Frumping.
1677. Holyoke, Lat. Dict., A frumper, sannio.
