frumpy, a.
(ˈfrʌmpɪ)
[f. frump n. + -y1.]
Cross-tempered; also, like a frump, dowdy.
| 1746 Clan Ronaldsmen in Jacobite Songs (1887) 238 The frumpy forward Duke. a 1825 Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Frumpy, having a sour and ill-humoured look. c 1840 J. Mitford in C. M.'s Lett. & Remin. (1891) 181 He is as old-fashioned and frumpy as if he had never been out of college. 1845 Blackw. Mag. LVII. 243 An old, faded, frumpy bonnet. 1849 Dickens Dav. Copp. xliv, I have been a grumpy, frumpy, wayward sort of a woman, a good many years. 1882 M. E. Braddon Mt. Royal xxvii, She was frumpy and dowdy. |
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Add: Hence ˈfrumpily adv.
| 1934 in Webster. 1982 Economist 20 Nov. 49/3 Buckingham Palace..has frumpily scolded the press for ‘near-hysteria’. |