Crossword-Solution: FRUMP
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Frump | v. t. | To insult; to flout; to mock; to snub. |
| Frump | n. | A contemptuous speech or piece of conduct; a gibe or flout. |
| Frump | n. | A cross, old-fashioned person; esp., an old woman; a gossip. |
We have 28 clues for the answer “FRUMP”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Dowdy woman | 1 answer |
| frow | 1 answer |
| Unfashionable, dowdy woman | 1 answer |
| The Mother-Hubbard type. | 1 answer |
| Snappy dresser's opposite | 1 answer |
| She's not on the list of best-dressed women. | 1 answer |
| She's no fashion plate | 1 answer |
| Shabby sort | 1 answer |
| Shabby individual | 1 answer |
| Opposite of a fashion plate. | 1 answer |
| Not best-dressed woman. | 1 answer |
| Not a stylish dresser | 1 answer |
| Dowdy type | 1 answer |
| Dowdy sort | 1 answer |
| Dowdy person | 1 answer |
| Dowdy one: Colloq. | 1 answer |
| Dowdy one | 1 answer |
| Dowdy housewife. | 1 answer |
| Dowdy dresser, derogatorily | 1 answer |
| Dowdy dresser | 1 answer |
| Dowdy dowager | 1 answer |
| Dowdy dame | 1 answer |
| Candidate for the worst-dressed woman. | 1 answer |
| No fashion plate. | 2 answers |
| UNTIDY person | 6 answers |
| A DULL UNATTRACTIVE UNPLEASANT GIRL OR WOMAN | 11 answers |
| woman | 36 answers |
| dowdy | 55 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with FRUMP (5)
Old hands know him and have got him on their list, escaping when escape is possible; for he will mate the green youth with the red frump, or like a premature millennium force the lion and the lamb to lie down together, and imagine he has given unmixed pleasure to both.
What a sense of fitness demands is, on the contrary, a “make up” in keeping with the rôle, which does not mean that a woman is to become a frump, but only that she is to make herself attractive in another way.
Camille (herself a frump with a fringe) whose frocks were worn by queens, and dancers and matrons with millions, and debutantes; Camille, who had introduced the slouch, revived the hoop, discovered the sunset chiffon, had actually consented to design six models every season for the mail order millions of the Haynes-Cooper women's dress department--at a price that made even Michael Fenger wince.
This last passed unnoticed, or was taken for granted in Paris, but in Berlin, home of the frump and the flour-sack figure, she was stared at, appreciatively.
But the "frump" will let herself and all her surroundings go to seed, not from humbleness of mind or an overwhelming sense of her own unworthiness, but in pure complacent conceit.
Quotes with FRUMP (3)
This susceptibility to impressions had been his undoing, no doubt. Still at his age he had, like a boy or a girl even, these alternations of mood; good days, bad days, for no reason whatever, happiness from a pretty face, downright misery at the sight of a frump.
An American Family Sampler is a book any reader will find insightful, thoroughly researched, and fun to read. Robert Frump, author, award winning journalist, business leader
Like so many of our neighbors who latched onto tragedy to stand out from the crowd -- slavery, incest, a suicide -- I had exaggerated the ethnic chip on my shoulder for effect. I've learned since that tragedy is not to be hoarded. Only the untouched, the well-fed and contented, could possibly covet suffering like a designer jacket. I'd readily donate my story to the Salvation Army so that some other frump in need of color could wear it away.
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Appears in: Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 39 times in crossword archives (1952–2022).