rumpus

rumpus

English

Etymology

1764, of unknown origin, "prob. a fanciful formation" [OED], possibly an alteration of robustious "boisterous, noisy".

Noun

rumpus (plural rumpuses)

1. A noisy, sometimes violent disturbance; noise and confusion; a quarrel.
   • 2020 February 12, Jack Met, Adam Met, Ryan Met, “Bang!”, in OK Orchestra‎, performed by AJR:

     I get up, I get down, and I'm jumping around / And the rumpus and ruckus are comfortable now / Been a hell of a ride, but I'm thinking it's time to grow / Bang! Bang! Bang!

2. (New Zealand, Australia, Canada) A rumpus room.

Synonyms

• ruckus, turmoil

Translations

noise and confusion

Bulgarian: врява (bg) f (vrjava), суматоха (bg) f (sumatoha) Dutch: geschil (nl),geroep (nl),verwarring (nl) French: conflit (fr) m, confusion (fr) f, divergence (fr) f German: Krach (de) m, Rabatz (de) m Hungarian: balhé (hu), zrí (hu) Italian: chiasso (it) Norwegian: rumpus Russian: шум (ru) (šum), гам (ru) (gam), гвалт (ru) (gvalt) Spanish: revuelo (es) Swedish: tumult (sv) n, bråk (sv) n, rabalder (sv) n

See also

• romp

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Latin

Etymology

Unknown[1].

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈrum.pus/, [ˈrʊmpʊs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈrum.pus/, [ˈrumpus]

Noun

rumpus m (genitive rumpī); second declension

1. A vine branch

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	rumpus	rumpī
Genitive	rumpī	rumpōrum
Dative	rumpō	rumpīs
Accusative	rumpum	rumpōs
Ablative	rumpō	rumpīs
Vocative	rumpe	rumpī

Synonyms

• trādux

Derived terms

• rumpōtinētum
• rumpōtinus

References

• “rumpus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• rumpus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette

1. Walde, Alois; Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1954), “rumpus”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 2, 3rd edition, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 452