a. [f. FRUMP sb. + -ISH.] Disposed to mock or flout; jesting, sneering; also, cross, ill-tempered.
1647. Wharton, Plutos Progr. Gt. Brit., 15. Thy lowring scowling makes me dumpish, For to see my Love so frumpish.
a. 1668. Davenant, Play-House to be Let, Wks. (1673), 116. When Fortune frumpish is, who ere withstood her?
1757. Foote, Author, II. Wks. 1799, I. 155. Methought she looked very frumpish and jealous.
1820. Keats & Hunt, Keats Wks. (1889), III. 35. Such a frumpish old fellow.
1882. Miss Braddon, Mt. Royal, I. ii. 47. The niece, rustic and gawky; the companion sour and frumpish.