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[syn: dowdy, frumpy, frumpish]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
frumpish
adj 1: primly out of date; "nothing so frumpish as last year's
gambling game" [syn: dowdy, frumpy, frumpish]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
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out-of-date, outmoded, poky, ragged, raggedy, ruinous, scraggly,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