frumpy
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frumpy or frumpish (ˈfrʌmpɪ, ˈfrʌmpɪʃ) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —adj | |
| (of a woman, clothes, etc) dowdy, drab, or unattractive | |
| frumpish or frumpish | |
| —adj | |
| frumpily or frumpish | |
| —adv | |
| frumpishly or frumpish | |
| —adv | |
| frumpiness or frumpish | |
| —n | |
| frumpishness or frumpish | |
| —n | |
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Frumpy
is always a great word to know.
So is ort. Does it mean:
| an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance. |
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
Etymonline
Word Origin & History
frumpy
1746, "cross-tempered," from frump (n.) "bad temper" (1660s) and an earlier v. meaning "to mock, browbeat" (1550s), of obscure origin, perhaps imitative of a sneer or derisive snort. Sense of "sour-looking, unfashionable" is from 1825, but this may be a shortening of frumple "to wrinkle, crumple" (late
14c.), from M.Du. verrompelen, from ver- "completely" + rompelen "to rumple." Related: Frumps. Cf. also frump.
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Same dated, frumpy place as before and not much consistency between locations.
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