frump
Americannoun
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a person who is dowdy, drab, and unattractive.
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a dull, old-fashioned person.
noun
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Etymology
Origin of frump
First recorded in 1545–55; origin uncertain
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Bean duck boots, largely vertical hair that he says “looks like rats nested on my scalp,” and thick-framed Le Corbusier glasses purchased in Paris that are somewhat at war with the home-office frump.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 27, 2017
In film after film, Mr. Gabler writes, she’d go “from mieskeit to beauty” — mieskeit is Yiddish for an ugly person, a frump — “from an outsider to a guiding light.”
From New York Times ● Apr. 20, 2016
With too much nerve, you are a fashion victim; without enough, you’re a frump.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 1, 2015
Even French couture can’t rescue my frump, and my notion of hunting is based on true fables about failure.
From Salon ● Jan. 31, 2014
The frump and the fop, they looked, but they were something more than that.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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