Talk:frump

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Slight change in meaning over time?[edit]

John Camden Hotten's Slang Dictionary (1873) has frump as "a slatternly woman, a gossip. In modern slang it is the feminine of fogey, and means a prim old lady, who is generally termed a regular old frump." Equinox 12:43, 4 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]