adj. Poorly dressed; wearing drab, lifeless, ill-fitting clothing. More typically used to describe women than men.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
adj. Cross-tempered; scornful.
adj. Old-fashioned, as a woman's dress.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Cross-tempered; cross-grained; scornful.
Old-fashioned, as applied to dress; dowdy. Also frumpy.
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adj. primly out of date
Word Usage
"She held her head very high indeed, and would not speak to this doll because it was "frumpish," or that doll because it was not in the same set as herself."