rump

See also: Rump

English

Etymology

From Middle English rumpe, from Old Norse rumpr (“rump”), from Middle Low German rump (“the bulk or trunk of a body, trunk of a tree”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *rumpō (“trunk of a tree, log”). Cognate with Icelandic rumpur (“rump”), Swedish rumpa (“rump”), Dutch romp (“trunk, body, hull”), German Rumpf (“hull, trunk, torso, trunk”).

In the sense of remnant, first attested in the Rump Parliament of 1648.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹʌmp/
• Rhymes: -ʌmp

Noun

rump (plural rumps)

1. The hindquarters of a four-legged mammal, not including its legs
2. A cut of meat from the rump of an animal.
3. The buttocks.
4. Remnant, as in Rump Parliament.

Synonyms

• (hindquarters of an animal): croupe, crupper
• (cut of meat from the hindquarters of an animal): round
• see Thesaurus:buttocks

Derived terms

• Rump Parliament
• rump state

Translations

the hindquarters of an animal

• Esperanto: gropo (eo)
• Finnish: takamus (fi), perä (fi), takapuoli (fi)
• French: croupe (fr) f
• Galician: garupa f, ancas f
• German: Kruppe (de) f
• Greek:

  Ancient: ὄρρος m (órrhos)

• Italian: girello (it) m, culaccio (it) m, culatta f, groppa (it) f, posteriore (it) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: 尻 (ja) (shiri)
• Maori: tāreperepe
• Persian: سرین (fa) (sorin), کپل (fa) (kapal), لمبر (fa) (lombar)
• Polish: zad (pl) m
• Portuguese: garupa (pt) f, anca (pt) f
• Russian: круп (ru) m (krup)
• Spanish: rabadilla (es) f

a cut of meat from the rump

• Finnish: paisti (fi)
• Italian: culaccio (it) m, scamone m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: ランプ (ja) (rampu), 尻肉 (shiriniku)
• Persian: لمبر (fa) (lombar)

the buttocks

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 屁股 (zh)

• Dutch: achterwerk (nl) n
• Esperanto: gropo (eo)
• Faroese: rumpa f
• Finnish: takamus (fi), perä (fi), takapuoli (fi), peppu (fi), pakarat (fi) pl
• French: croupe (fr) f
• German: Gesäß (de) n
• Greek:

  Ancient:

• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: natiche (it), deretano (it), sedere (it), chiappe (it), posteriore (it) m, didietro (it) m
• Japanese: 尻 (ja) (shiri)
• Mongolian: бөгч (bögč)
• Norwegian: rumpe (no) f
• Persian: لمبر (fa) (lombar), الست (fa) (alast) (archaic)
• Portuguese: traseiro (pt) m, nádegas (pt) f pl
• Spanish: trasero (es) m, nalgas (es) f pl, posaderas (es) f pl, asentaderas f pl
• Swedish: rumpa (sv) c
• Volapük: glüets

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Maori: ^{(please verify)} papa
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Mongolian: ^{(please verify)} гуя (mn) (guja), ^{(please verify)} ууц (mn) (uuc)

Anagrams

• MURP

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Scots

Etymology

From Old Norse rumpr (“rump”), from Middle Low German rump (“the bulk or trunk of a body, trunk of a tree”), from Proto-Germanic *rumpō (“trunk of a tree, log”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [rʌmp]

Noun

rump (plural rumps)

1. (anatomy) rump
2. a topside beef cut

Derived terms

• rump an stump (“completely, wholly, in its entirety”)
• rumple (“rump, tail, haunches, buttocks, seat”)

Verb

rump (third-person singular simple present rumps, present participle rumpin, simple past rumpit, past participle rumpit)

1. to plunder, clean out of money
2. (colloquial, humorous) Sexual intercourse.

Derived terms

• rumpy-pumpy, rumpie-pumpie