rumple

English

Verb

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

1. To make wrinkled, particularly of fabric.

   I'll rumple my bedsheets so it looks like I was here last night.

   • Burke

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

2. To muss.
3. To tousle.

Translations

to make wrinkled

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

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

• Dutch: verkreukelen (nl)
• Finnish: rypistää
• French: froisser (fr)

• German: zerknittern
• Japanese: くしゃくしゃにする (kushakusha ni suru)
• Maori: tarihahohaho
• Polish: marszczyć 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)

Anagrams

• Lumper, lumper, replum

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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”)