1831. J. R. Planché, Olympic Revels, Sc. i. Cheat, you stingy frump! Who wants to cheat?
1837. Barham, Ingoldsby Legends, I., p. 157. Get into the hands of the other old frumps. [[79]]
1857. Thackeray, Virginians, ch. xxxi. She is changed now, isn’t she? What an old Gorgon it is! She is a great patroness of your book-men, and when that old frump was young they actually made verses about her.
3. (old).—A cheat; a trick.
1602. Rowland, Greene’s Ghost, 37. They come off with their … frumps.
Verb (old).—To mock; to insult.
1589. Nashe, Month’s Mind, in Works, Vol. I., p. 158. One of them … maketh a iest of Princes, and ‘the troubling of the State, and offending of her Maiestie,’ hee turneth of with a frumping forsooth, as though it were a toie to think of it.
1593. G. Harvey, Pierces Super, in Works II., 107. That despiseth the graces of God, flowteth the constellations of heaven, frumpeth the operations of nature.
1609. Man in the Moone. Hee … frumpeth those his mistresse frownes on.
1757. Garrick, Irish Widow, I., i. Yes, he was frumped, and called me old blockhead.