frumpery

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noun

Frumpish appearance or behaviour.

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Meanings

nounfrumpery (countable and uncountable, plural frumperies)

plural frumperies

  1. countableuncountableFrumpish appearance or behaviour.

    The flick he gave over her robe-clad body was dismissive, adding further to her feelings of frumpery.

    2014, Kate Meader, Hot and Bothered
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    Ladies of yesteryear toured world capitals in sedate linen dresses, but such priggish frumpery hardly presents Americans as the carefree, egalitarian, and sensuous people the viewers of dubbed Baywatch episodes have come to expect.

    2005, Sharon Grehan, Random Acts of Malice, page 56

Origin

From frump + -ery.

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APA

frumpery. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/frumpery

MLA

“frumpery.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/frumpery. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “frumpery,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/frumpery.

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