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10 Language-to-English Dictionariesfemme négligée
Pronunciation / Transliteration: fam ne-gli-zhe
"Elle refusait de s'habiller comme une femme négligée."
Comprehensive Definitions & Senses
2 senses- 1
A person, typically a woman, who wears unfashionable, drab, or outdated clothes and lacks style.
"She refused to look like a frump and decided to completely revamp her wardrobe."
- 1
To dress or present oneself in an unattractive, dowdy, or unfashionable manner.
"He spent the entire weekend lounging around the house, completely frumped in oversized sweatpants."
Thesaurus & Semantic Spectrum
Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology
Originating in the late 16th century as an imitative verb meaning 'to mock' or 'to treat with contempt', 'frump' likely derives from the Middle Dutch 'frompeltete' (wrinkle or crumple). By the mid-18th century, the noun shifted to refer to a surly person and eventually evolved into its modern derogatory sense denoting an unfashionable, unattractively dressed person.
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10 Global Lexicons: How "Frump" is said worldwide
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femme négligée
Transliteration: fam ne-gli-zhe
"Elle refusait de s'habiller comme une femme négligée."
Maus
Transliteration: maus
"Sie wollte nicht wie eine graue Maus wirken."
persona trasandata
Transliteration: per-so-na tra-san-da-ta
"Non voleva sembrare una persona trasandata alla festa."
mujer desaliñada
Transliteration: mu-her de-sa-li-nya-da
"Se negaba a verse como una mujer desaliñada."
pessoa desleixada
Transliteration: pe-so-a des-lei-sha-da
"Ela não queria parecer uma pessoa desleixada."
बेढंगा व्यक्ति
Transliteration: bedhanga vyakti
"वह पुराने और बेढंगे कपड़े पहनना पसंद नहीं करती थी।"
穿着过时的女人
Transliteration: chuānzhuō guòshí de nǚrén
"她才不想打扮得像个穿着过时的女人。"
촌스럽게 입는 사람
Transliteration: chon-seureop-ge ib-neun sa-ram
"그녀는 촌스럽게 보이는 것을 극도로 싫어했다."
垢抜けない人
Transliteration: akanukenai hito
"彼女は垢抜けない格好をしたくなかった。"
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