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say it: fruhmp
frump is a noun meaning "a dull unattractive unpleasant girl or woman". It is pronounced /ˈfɹʌmp/ — fruhmp. It carries one recorded sense.
a dull unattractive unpleasant girl or woman
“she got a reputation as a frump”
“she's a real dog”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for frump come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.