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frou-frou

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1. frou-frou - Noun

2. frou-frou - Adjective

3. frou-frou - Verb

Meaning

frou-frou (plural frou-frous)

(onomatopoeia) A rustling sound, particularly the rustling of a large silk dress.

Liable to create the sound of rustling cloth, similar to 19th-century dresses.

Highly ornamented, overly elaborate; excessively girly.

They ate in a frou-frou restaurant at the top of a skyscraper.

(derogatory) Unimportant, silly, useless.
Bob was off faffing about doing frou-frou nonsense whilst Edwina kept her nose to the grindstone.

frou-frou (third-person singular simple present frou-frous, present participle frou-frouing, simple past and past participle frou-froued)

(rare) To move with the sound of rustling dresses.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

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frou frou

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