Frumpish

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Frumpish \Frump"ish\, a.
     1. Cross-tempered; scornful. [Obs.]
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     2. Old-fashioned, as a woman's dress.
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              Our Bell . . . looked very frumpish.  --Foote.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  frumpish
       adj : primly out of date; "nothing so frumpish as last year's
             gambling game" [syn: {dowdy}, {frumpy}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  45 Moby Thesaurus words for "frumpish":
     beat-up, bedraggled, blowzy, careless, chintzy, dilapidated, dowdy,
     drabbletailed, draggled, draggletailed, frowzy, frumpy, grubby,
     in rags, informal, loose, lumpen, messy, mussy, negligent,
     out-of-date, outmoded, poky, ragged, raggedy, ruinous, scraggly,
     seedy, shabby, shoddy, slack, slatternly, slipshod, sloppy,
     slovenly, sluttish, sordid, squalid, stodgy, tacky, tattered,
     unkempt, unneat, unsightly, untidy