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/

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Verb

rumple (third-person singular simple present rumples, present participle rumpling, simple past and past participle rumpled)

1. (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:

     They would not give a dog's ear of their most rumpled and ragged Scotch paper for twenty of your fairest assignats.

2. (transitive) To muss; to tousle.

Derived terms

• rumple up
• rumpler
• unrumple

Translations

to make wrinkled

• Azerbaijani: əzmək (az)
• Bulgarian: набръчквам (bg) (nabrǎčkvam), намачквам (namačkvam)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 弄皺／弄皱 (zh) (nòngzhòu), 弄绉 (zh) (nòng zhòu), 皺褶／皱褶 (zh) (zhòuzhě)

• Dutch: verkreukelen (nl)
• Finnish: rypistää
• French: froisser (fr)
• German: zerknittern (de)
• Japanese: くしゃくしゃにする (kushakusha ni suru)
• Maori: tarihahohaho
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: knøvle

  Nynorsk: knuvla

• Polish: marszczyć (pl) impf, zmarszczyć (pl) pf, miąć (pl) impf, zmiąć pf, gnieść (pl) impf, pognieść pf
• Russian: мять (ru) impf (mjatʹ), смять (ru) pf (smjatʹ), ко́мкать (ru) impf (kómkatʹ), ско́мкать (ru) pf (skómkatʹ)
• Slovak: pokrčiť, krčiť

Noun

rumple (plural rumples)

1. A wrinkle.

See also

• Rumplestiltskin

Anagrams

• Lumper, Plumer, lumper, replum

Scots

Etymology

rump (“rump”) +‎ -le

Noun

rumple (plural rumples)

1. diminutive of rump
2. (anatomy) rump, tail, haunches, buttocks, seat

Derived terms

• rumple-bane (“rump-bone, coccyx”)