Associations to the word «Frumpy»

Wiktionary

FRUMPY, adjective. Dowdy, unkempt, or unfashionable.
FRUMPY, adjective. (dated) Ill- or bad-tempered.

Dictionary definition

FRUMPY, adjective. Primly out of date; "nothing so frumpish as last year's gambling game".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope