a. [f. FRUMP sb. + -ISH.] Disposed to mock or flout; jesting, sneering; also, cross, ill-tempered.

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1647.  Wharton, Pluto’s Progr. Gt. Brit., 15. Thy lowring scowling makes me dumpish, For to see my Love so frumpish.

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a. 1668.  Davenant, Play-House to be Let, Wks. (1673), 116. When Fortune frumpish is, who e’re withstood her?

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1757.  Foote, Author, II. Wks. 1799, I. 155. Methought she looked very frumpish and jealous.

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1820.  Keats & Hunt, Keats’ Wks. (1889), III. 35. Such a frumpish old fellow.

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1882.  Miss Braddon, Mt. Royal, I. ii. 47. The niece, rustic and gawky; the companion sour and frumpish.

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