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Word: frump (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...feel like a frustrated frump in a frumenty, because I don't know what frumious means, and Webster's doesn't tell me. I knew Mayor Kelly was fulgid and fubsy, but I never before suspected his frumiousness [TIME, March 25]. You've been my revered fugleman for so long that I know you won't let me down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 15, 1946 | 4/15/1946 | See Source »

...this has been transformed by the magic eye of the camera and the Hollywood touch. As a film, The Primrose Path has become a problem picture with false notes from Steinbeck. Grandma (Queenie Vassar) still likes it carnal, is still a coy and bawdy frump, still gets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 1, 1940 | 4/1/1940 | See Source »

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