Sekirov Dictionary

frou-frou

/ˈfɹuːfɹuː/

adjective 3
noun 1
verb 1
forms 5

adjective3

•
Highly ornamented, overly elaborate; excessively girly.
- They ate in a frou-frou restaurant at the top of a skyscraper.
•
(disapproving) Unimportant, silly, useless.
- Bob was off faffing about doing frou-frou nonsense whilst Edwina kept her nose to the grindstone.
Liable to create the sound of rustling cloth, similar to 19th-century dresses.

noun1

•
A rustling sound, particularly the rustling of a large silk dress.
- The modern frou-frou of satin and gros-de-Naples skirts is nothing to the rustling of brocaded silks. — 1870

verb1

•
To move with the sound of rustling dresses.
- “Oh, you funny girl! You look so surprised. Confess, now, there's nothing you can hide from me,” and ruffling my hair as she passed she frou-froued out of the room. — 1894

forms

frou-froued · frou-frouing · frou-frous · more frou-frou · most frou-frou

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