a. [f. FRUMP sb. + -Y1.] Cross-tempered; also, like a frump, dowdy.

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1746.  Clan Ronaldsmen, in Jacobite Songs (1887), 238. The frumpy forward Duke.

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a. 1825.  Forby, Voc. E. Anglia, Frumpy, having a sour and ill-humoured look.

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c. 1840.  J. Mitford, in C. M.’s Lett. & Remin. (1891), 181. He is as old-fashioned and frumpy as if he had never been out of college.

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1845.  Blackw. Mag., LVII. 243. An old, faded, frumpy bonnet.

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1849.  Dickens, Dav. Copp., xliv. I have been a grumpy, frumpy, wayward sort of a woman, a good many years.

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1882.  Miss Braddon, Mt. Royal, III. vi. 108. I really liked her better last year, when she was frumpy and dowdy.

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