different between rumple vs corrugation

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)

1. (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.

2. (transitive) To muss; to tousle.

Translations

Noun

rumple (plural rumples)

1. A wrinkle.

See also

• Rumplestiltskin

Anagrams

• Lumper, Plumer, lumper, replum

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”)

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?r.?.??e?.??n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

corrugation (countable and uncountable, plural corrugations)

1. The process of corrugating; contraction into wrinkles or alternate ridges and grooves.
   • 1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift [Avon ed., 1976, pp. 391–92]:

     According to the pilot, ships were taking hard punishment in the storm. But from this altitude the corrugations of the seas looked no higher to the eye than the ridges of your palate feel to the tongue.