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frumpery

frumpery noun: frumpish appearance or behaviour.

Noun

frumpery (countable and uncountable, plural frumperies)

  1. Frumpish appearance or behaviour.
    • 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
    • The flick he gave over her robe-clad body was dismissive, adding further to her feelings of frumpery.2014, Kate Meader, Hot and Bothered

Forms of frumpery

pluralfrumperies

Origin of frumpery

From frump + -ery.

Questions about frumpery

What does frumpery mean?
Frumpery means frumpish appearance or behaviour.
What part of speech is frumpery?
Frumpery is a noun.
What is the plural of frumpery?
The plural of frumpery is frumperies.

Words near frumpery in the dictionary

  1. frump
  2. frumped
  3. frumper
  4. frumperies
  5. frumpers
  6. frumpery
  7. frumpier
  8. frumpiest
  9. frumpily
  10. frumpiness
  11. frumping

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