a. [f. FRUMP sb. + -Y1.] Cross-tempered; also, like a frump, dowdy.
1746. Clan Ronaldsmen, in Jacobite Songs (1887), 238. The frumpy forward Duke.
a. 1825. Forby, Voc. E. Anglia, Frumpy, having a sour and ill-humoured look.
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.
1845. Blackw. Mag., LVII. 243. An old, faded, frumpy bonnet.
1849. Dickens, Dav. Copp., xliv. I have been a grumpy, frumpy, wayward sort of a woman, a good many years.
1882. Miss Braddon, Mt. Royal, III. vi. 108. I really liked her better last year, when she was frumpy and dowdy.