(n.) A contemptuous speech or piece of conduct; a gibe or flout.
(n.) A cross, old-fashioned person; esp., an old woman; a gossip.
Example Sentences:
(1) If you didn't like the focus on birds and beer, you were easily classed as a frump and a drudge.
(2) Although the "first lady" is not an official position in France, Trierweiler was granted an office and staff at the Elysée palace and has maintained a high media profile, which included an appearance at a White House reception in high-heeled shoes that made the other G8 wives look like flat-footed frumps.
(3) There are other factors, not least that, these days, M&S clothing seems to range from eastern bloc frump, circa 1981, to wacky Middle-earth festival-goer, with not much else in between.
(4) Much has been made of Sturgeon's physical makeover in recent years – "she was a frump!
Grump
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) "I can't separate the business from the personal," he grumps over a shot of an oil painting depicting him as a jubilant 18th-century nobleman surrounded by his children's whooping disembodied heads.
(2) Blunkett is unapologetic: "If you're going to bring about change, you're going to break eggs, and the grump in the staffroom was always going to have one foot in the grave," he says.
(3) Look, nobody likes a grump – and a smile costs nothing.
(4) Andy darkly gruffing and grumping and breaking off every few minutes to check the Guardian homepage on his iPhone.
(5) When Pixar's new animated adventure Brave reaches UK cinemas next week, even grumps like me, who feel the picture falls short of the studio's usual standard , will be cheering in the streets.
(6) But those outside the fanbase seemed to throw a collective grump.
(7) On he grumped: "There are really serious critics of Vladimir Putin in Russia who deserve our attention much more than these three misguided young feminist rock musicians who have desecrated a cathedral."
(8) I learned the diverse regional terms for woodlouse, among them “chuggypig” (Cornwall), “sow-dug” (Essex), “slater” (Northern Ireland), “gramfy-coocher” (Somerset), and “johnny-grump” (Gloucestershire).
(9) But I see I am not the only grump: rapper and producer Wiley arrived in the rain and immediately wanted out.
(10) By then, I was editing the culture section of Marxism Today and procured an interview with that grump Jean Baudrillard.
(11) He's vigorous and passionate, and far from the dour grump he's often portrayed as.
(12) Fortunately (and I say this as the kind of grump who hates superlatives) my collaborator is without doubt the greatest pudding cook in the country.
(13) "As he'd freely admit he's got a streak of Scots grump to him, but he's brilliant at generating enthusiasm for your ideas.
(14) Were it not for José Mourinho, the Manchester United manager would be out on his own in the Premier League and the most reliable way to give Mr Grump a bit more hump is to ask him about his relationship with Ronald Koeman.
(15) He's Bruce Willis basking in the afterglow of Moonlighting , before he was curdled into a reluctant grump by the prospect of spending his entire life promoting second-rate sequels .