| 词汇 | frump |
| 释义 | frump noun[ C ] disapprovinguk /frʌmp/ us /frʌmp/ a woman who wears old-fashioned clothes that do not look attractive: 穿着过时的女人;衣着邋遢的女人 She looked like a frump in her shapeless skirt and flat shoes.她身穿一条松垮的裙子，脚踏一双平底鞋，看起来有点老土。 People who are boring and old-fashioned bore buzzkill Colonel Blimp crashing bore dinosaur drip fogey grind has-been killjoy Luddite normcore nudnik spod spoilsport square stick-in-the-mud stuffed shirt uncharismatic yawn Examples of frumpfrump Frump says the voluminous preparation was a far more thorough than in 2001. From ESPN Why had that cursed old frump come butting in? From Project Gutenberg The frump whispered to the man who opened the door. From Project Gutenberg It would be her fate, her discipline, her cross, to have a frump brought hideously home to her. From Project Gutenberg The looking-glass had bitter things to tell me, and crying makes me such a frump. From Project Gutenberg The idea seems to be that it is quite safe to begin with "frumps," that they are better than no one. From Project Gutenberg She flushed a little shyly and addressed the frump. From Project Gutenberg She was there in the living-room--she and the frump. From Project Gutenberg Only the arrival of the frump's father had so far saved me. From Project Gutenberg She was an awful frump, but she knew how to tutor. From Project Gutenberg When the gossip-peddlers brought her this fierce verdict she was hardened enough to scorn the respectables as frumps. From Project Gutenberg He broke off, staring at the frump, who was making signs with her eyes, frowning and beckoning him with her green flower-pot. From Project Gutenberg As for the frump, she frankly and harshly laughed, and then moved up a speed, just as a south-bound express took the station. From Project Gutenberg And the frump, jogging along behind, looked just as funny. From Project Gutenberg And this was the frump's father, and it was for him she was scheming to make a home! From Project Gutenberg These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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