What Does Frumpily Mean?

1. A girl or woman regarded as dull, plain, or unfashionable. 2. A person regarded as colorless and primly sedate. [Possibly short for Middle English frumple, wrinkle, from Middle Dutch verrompelen, to wrinkle : ver-, completely; see per in Indo-European roots + rompelen, to wrinkle.]

What does frumpy mean in slang?

: dowdy, drab: such as. a : dressed in an unattractive way He's a frumpy dresser.

Where did frumpy come from?

frumpy (adj.)

1746, "cross-tempered," probably from the frumps (n.) "bad temper" (1660s) and an earlier verb meaning "to mock, browbeat" (1550s), of obscure origin, perhaps imitative of a sneer or derisive snort.