different between furrow vs rumple
furrow
English
Etymology
From Middle English furgh, forow, from Old English furh, from Proto-West Germanic *furh, from Proto-Germanic *furhs (compare Saterland Frisian Fuurge, Dutch voor, German Furche, Swedish fåra, Norwegian Bokmål fure), from Proto-Indo-European *per?- (“to dig”).
Compare Welsh rhych (“furrow”), Latin porca (“ridge, balk”), Lithuanian prapar?šas (“ditch”), Sanskrit ?????? (pár??na, “chasm”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?f??o?/, /?f?o?/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?f????/
- (accents without the "Hurry-furry" merger)
- (accents with the "Hurry-furry" merger)
- Rhymes: -????
Noun
furrow (plural furrows)
- A trench cut in the soil, as when plowed in order to plant a crop.
- Don't walk across that deep furrow in the field.
- Any trench, channel, or groove, as in wood or metal.
- A deep wrinkle in the skin of the face, especially on the forehead.
- When she was tired, a deep furrow appeared on her forehead.
Derived terms
- furrowless
- furrowlike
- furrowy
Translations
Verb
furrow (third-person singular simple present furrows, present participle furrowing, simple past and past participle furrowed)
- (transitive) To cut one or more grooves in (the ground, etc.).
- (transitive) To wrinkle.
- (transitive) To pull one's brows or eyebrows together due to concentration, worry, etc.
- Synonym: frown
Derived terms
- furrower
- furrowing
- unfurrow
- unfurrowed
Translations
See also
- plough a lonely furrow
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rumple
English
Etymology
Compare German rumpeln (“to din, to make the welkin ring”) and Dutch rommelen (“to rumble”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???mp?l/
Verb
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
Noun
rumple (plural rumples)
- A wrinkle.
See also
- Rumplestiltskin
Anagrams
- Lumper, Plumer, lumper, replum
Scots
Etymology
rump (“rump”) +? -le
Noun
rumple (plural rumples)
- Diminutive of rump
- (anatomy) rump, tail, haunches, buttocks, seat
Derived terms
- rumple-bane (“rump-bone, coccyx”)
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