frumps
Meaning of frumps
plural noun
an unattractive woman who wears dowdy old-fashioned clothes.
mid 16th century: probably a contraction of late Middle English frumple ‘wrinkle’, from Middle Dutch verrompelen . The word originally denoted a mocking speech or action; later (in the plural) ill humour, the sulks; hence a bad-tempered, (later) dowdy woman (early 19th century).
Information about frumps
- It is a name.
- The singular form of frumps is: frump.
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Hyphenation of frumps
frumps
- It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
- frumps is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
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