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frumpy

[fruhm-pee] / ˈfrʌm pi /


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Equihua is reimagining the frumpy image of the adult pajama, afterthought cotton shirts and old worn-in lover’s shorts that would never see the light of day.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 14, 2025

After Fawlty Towers, Scales continued to work in television, including a stint as the frumpy Elizabeth Mapp in ITV's Mapp and Lucia.

From BBC • Oct. 28, 2025

What’s left is a narrowed, frumpy prestige app that feels like HBO Now and HBO Go, complemented only by a limited window of BritBox previews.

From Slate • Aug. 7, 2025

Yeoh plays Evelyn Wang, a Chinese-American woman who is at odds with her husband, father, daughter and a frumpy tax auditor named Deirdre Beaubeirdre played by movie veteran Jamie Lee Curtis.

From Reuters • Mar. 9, 2023

The houses there are old, close together, with frumpy little front gardens and pointed roofs and moldering wooden scrollwork around the porches.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood




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