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Definition:1. A contemptuous speech or piece of conduct; a gibe or flout. [Obs.]2. A cross, old-fashioned person; esp., an old woman; a gossip. [Colloq.]Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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Alas fond fool, art thou so pinned to their sleeves that you regard more their babble than your own bliss, more their frumps than your own welfare?
John Lyly. Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit (1578)
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“Thank you for nothing! Fancy spending a cent upon those old frumps,
Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 5]
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DIMINISHED DIGITS PROVE TOO TITILLATING FOR FRISKY FRUMPS.
James Joyce. Ulysses
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When a dashingly-clad officer addresses such a frumpishly dressed bum, he scolds him, as an officer in any army must.
Kurt Vonnegut. Slaughterhouse-Five (1968)
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