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Definition of Frumps
1. frump [n] - See also: frump
Lexicographical Neighbors of Frumps
Literary usage of Frumps
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares (1859)
"... Love his page out privily him frumps. ... leave these frumps, S!r, ... not nt
the frumps of tome« Ne fea re at others ..."
2. Suffolk Words and Phrases: Or, An Attempt to Collect the Lingual Localisms by Edward Moor (1823)
"FRUMP, FRUMPY, FRUMPISH, frumps. The first term is of reproach, ... If insolent
withal, she would be said to be frumpy, or frumpish, or " in her frumps. ..."
3. Macmillan's Magazine by John Morley, Mowbray Morris, David Masson, George Grove (1900)
"And papa would never invite old frumps, especially female old frumps; but only
know nice people such as were amusing and clever, or such as everybody else ..."
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