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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Compare German rumpeln (“to din, to make the welkin ring”) and Dutch rommelen (“to rumble”)
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
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, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France
- 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[edit]
to make wrinkled
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Noun[edit]
rumple (plural rumples)
- A wrinkle.
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Scots[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
rumple (plural rumples)
Derived terms[edit]
- rumple-bane (“rump-bone, coccyx”)