Frump vs Crump - What's the difference?
frump | crump |
(colloquial) A frumpy person, somebody who is unattractive, drab or dowdy.
The clothes that such a person would wear.
(UK, Scotland, dialect) Hard or crusty; dry baked
(obsolete) crooked; bent
* Jeremy Taylor
The sound of a muffled explosion.
* 1929 , Robert Graves, Goodbye to All That
* 1999 , Kate Atkinson, Behind the Scenes at the Museum
* 2000 , Richard Woodman, The Darkening Sea
* 2008 , Paul Wood, BBC News.
To produce such a sound.
* {{quote-news, year=2007, date=September 28, author=William Grimes, title=In Middle Leg of the Race, the Prize Was Italy, work=New York Times
, passage=“Mortars crumped , and from the high ground to the east and south came the shriek of 88-millimeter shells, green fireballs that whizzed through the dunes at half a mile a second, trailing golden plumes of dust.” }}
As a noun frump
is (colloquial) a frumpy person, somebody who is unattractive, drab or dowdy.As a verb frump
is (obsolete) to insult; to flout; to mock; to snub.As a proper noun crump is
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English
Noun
(en noun)- You look like such a frump today!
- Get that frump off – it's horrid!
Derived terms
* frumpish * frumpycrump
English
Etymology 1
Anglo-Saxon (crumb) stooping, bent down, akin to Old High German chrumb, (etyl) krumm, (etyl) krum, and English cramp.Adjective
(en adjective)- a crump loaf
- Crooked backs and crump shoulders.
Etymology 2
Onomatopoeic.English onomatopoeiasNoun
(en noun)- [hymn] "To an inheritance incorruptible . . . Through faith unto salvation, Ready to be revealed at the last trump." For "trump" we always used to sing "crump." A crump was German five-point-nine shell, and "the last crump" would be the end of the War.
- Crump , crack! A shell exploded near them and the whole aircraft yawned to port as if somebody had punched it through the sky.
- Above this grey skyline slowly lifting clouds of dirty smoke rose into the morning air as the salvoes of Japanese shells exploded with a delayed crump .
Taking cover on Sderot front line
- "Now you can see what life is like for us here," said Yakov Shoshani, raising his voice to make himself heard over the sound of a loud crump .
Verb
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