rumpledness
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Noun[edit]
rumpledness (uncountable)
- The quality or degree of being rumpled.
- 1965, Catherine Ellen O'Neill, Laboratory exercices[sic] to demonstrate the effect of certain hormones and hormone inhibitors on the development of the young chick, page 24:
- An interesting side-light of the embryological studies has been the discovery of insulin-induced abnormalities in beak formation and rumpledness, but the chick embryo is outside the scope of this report.
- 2004, Eve Ottenberg, Glum And Mighty Pagans, page 112:
- He was tallish and not at all bad looking, except for a certain haggardness and rumpledness which bespoke an evident desire to get out of his suit.