rumple

See also: Rumple

English

Etymology

Compare German rumpeln (“to din, to make the welkin ring”) and Dutch rommelen (“to rumble”)

Verb

1. (transitive) To make wrinkled, particularly 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. (transitive) To muss; to tousle.

Translations

to make wrinkled

• 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), 皱褶 (zh) (zhòuzhě)

• Dutch: verkreukelen (nl)
• Finnish: rypistää
• French: froisser (fr)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• German: zerknittern (de)
• Japanese: くしゃくしゃにする (kushakusha ni suru)
• Maori: tarihahohaho
• 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.

Anagrams

• Lumper, Plumer, 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”)