Definitions for frump

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Spelling: [fruhmp]
IPA: /frʌmp/

Frump is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 41 anagrams from letters in frump (fmpru).

Definitions for frump

noun

  1. a person who is dowdy, drab, and unattractive.
  2. a dull, old-fashioned person.

Origin of frump

First recorded in 1545-55; origin uncertain

Examples for frump

"And metathorax," chimed in the frump, her head close to his.

Mrs. frump made her sentences short, to accommodate her breath.

The frump now was to be worked off on me, and I was expected to stand for it.

"One bore, or one frump, can ruin a party," was a favorite saying of hers.

“The frump, as you call her, is usually a countess or a duchess,” with asperity.

frump,—the word calls up the exact picture; frump and fatuity.

No one ever regained my favour by making a frump of herself.

"To only two that I know of," responded Mrs. frump, in a winning voice.

And this was the frump's father, and it was for him she was scheming to make a home!

Billings waved his hand to the frump as he mounted the stairway inside.

Word Value for frump
Scrable

12

Words with friends

15

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