frump
noun/frʌmp/
/frʌmp/
(disapproving)- a person, especially a woman, who wears clothes that are not fashionable or attractiveWord Originmid 16th cent.: 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 cent.).
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