Word.ws English Dictionary

frumping

frumping is the present participle and gerund of frump.

Meaning of frump

Verb

frump (third-person singular simple present frumps, present participle frumping, simple past and past participle frumped)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To insult; to flout; to mock; to snub.
    • Was ever gentlewoman So frump'd off with a fool!1617, John Fletcher, “The Chances”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase...
  2. To assume a countenance or demeanor indicating irritation, ill-humor, or disapproval.
    • I told the guy "Well, now all I can do is come up with excuses" & told him I had to babysit. He frumped like, "Oh, shame!" and asked if I'd be there later.1982, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure

See all 7 meanings of frump

Questions about frumping

What is frumping the present participle and gerund of?
Frumping is the present participle and gerund of frump.

Words near frumping in the dictionary

  1. frumpery
  2. frumpier
  3. frumpiest
  4. frumpily
  5. frumpiness
  6. frumping
  7. frumpish
  8. frumpishly
  9. frumpishness
  10. frumple
  11. frumpled

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: frumping (page history and authors); frump (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “frumping.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/frumping. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.