dowdy, frumpy, frumpish
(adjective) primly out of date; “nothing so frumpish as last year’s gambling game”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
frumpish (comparative more frumpish, superlative most frumpish)
Poorly dressed; wearing drab, lifeless, ill-fitting clothing, or being clothing of this kind.
(dated) Bad-tempered.
• In the sense of being poorly dressed, used to describe women more often than men.
• (poorly dressed): frumpy
• (bad-tempered): frumpy
Source: Wiktionary
Frump"ish, a.
1. Cross-tempered; scornful. [Obs.]
2. Old-fashioned, as a woman's dress. Our Bell . . . looked very frumpish. Foote.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
19 April 2025
(verb) grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of; “did you catch that allusion?”; “We caught something of his theory in the lecture”; “don’t catch your meaning”; “did you get it?”; “She didn’t get the joke”; “I just don’t get him”
The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
