rumple
See also: Rumple
English
Etymology
From Middle English rimplen (“to become wrinkled”). Compare German rumpeln (“to din, to make the welkin ring”) and Dutch rommelen (“to rumble”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɹʌmpəl/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Verb
rumple (third-person singular simple present rumples, present participle rumpling, simple past and past participle rumpled)
- (transitive) To make wrinkled, particularly fabric.
- I'll rumple my bedsheets so it looks like I was here last night.
- 1790 November, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. […], London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […], OCLC 946162345:
- They would not give a dog's ear of their most rumpled and ragged Scotch paper for twenty of your fairest assignats.
- (transitive) To muss; to tousle.
Translations
to make wrinkled
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Noun
rumple (plural rumples)
- A wrinkle.
See also
- Rumplestiltskin
Anagrams
- Lumper, Plumer, lumper, replum
Scots
Etymology
rump (“rump”) + -le
Noun
rumple (plural rumples)
- Diminutive of rump
- (anatomy) rump, tail, haunches, buttocks, seat
Derived terms
- rumple-bane (“rump-bone, coccyx”)