英:[frʌmp]
美:[ frʌmp]
英:[frʌmp]
美:[ frʌmp]
frumpish (adj.), frumpishly (adv.), frumpishness (n.)
词根:frump
adj.frumpish 衣物破旧的;心地不良的
Noun
1. a dull unattractive unpleasant girl or woman;
"she got a reputation as a frump"
"she's a real dog"
"Frump(土气、不时髦的人)",尤指女性,1817年,来自一组起源不明的相关词汇: Frump(n.)"嘲弄的言语"(1550年代),"嘲笑或哼声"(1580年代); frump(v.)"嘲弄,嘲笑,嘲弄"(1570年代); frumps(n.)"坏脾气"(1660年代); frumpish(adj.)"脾气暴躁的"(1640年代); 并比较 frumpy。
probably from frumple to wrinkle
The first known use of frump was in 1817
1 With too much nerve, you are a fashion victim; without enough, you’re a frump.
2 As be did this, another arrow came whirr and frump, but this one buried all except its feathers in the grass, and stayed still, as if it had never moved.
3 She got a reputation as a frump.
她落得了个邋遢女人的名声。
4 Our good friends here are kind as kind can be, and no frumps.
5 Now, by comparison with a bright, well-dressed wife, he sees what an “old frump” his mother is.
6 The very sound of your name was enough to make me weep with delight, like that frump of a girl in the poem, when you gave her a smile....
7 Mohammed is amusing as the nervous sycophant, as is Jane Stanness as a frump whose submerged libido and unsuspected spying skill are played for laughs.
8 Do you suppose I'm going to give in to a couple of frumps like those two?
9 Veronica, by contrast, was a frump of “buzzing ugliness,” who lived in a dingy one-bedroom with six Siamese cats.
10 It was Jacobs' strongest collection for the French luxury supernova in several seasons - much better than fall-winter 2010-2011's ladylike 1950s looks in thick tweed that made the curvy supermodels look like frumps.
11 There is no reason why we must be frumps.”
12 For shoppers such as Lynn Brown, 41, who said she dreads going to the gym, not looking "like a frump" is of utmost concern.
13 Just because I’m a scientific man, is it to be assumed that I ought to be a frump?
14 It would be her fate, her discipline, her cross, to have a frump brought hideously home to her.
15 A woman—young, singularly beautiful, dressed like a middle-aged frump, with the manners of a matron of fifty, staid, reserved, inattentive, uninterested!
16 Even French couture can’t rescue my frump, and my notion of hunting is based on true fables about failure.
17 So women who believe they should have equal rights with men are just bitter because they are ugly, dumb frumps.
18 “And she doesn’t play frumps or virgins, and she is given this script to play a frump!”
19 Not to be behindhand with you in your frumps, I give you back your purse of gold: Take you that—in imagination.
20 Plus: the horror of the knee-length ‘frump’ length!