different between rumple vs lirk

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

Alternative forms

• lurk, lerk, lairk, lark

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??(?)k

Etymology 1

From Middle English lyrken, from Old Norse lerka (“to plait, fold, bind, lace up tightly, chastise”), related to Old Norse lurkr (“cudgel, club”).

Verb

lirk (third-person singular simple present lirks, present participle lirking, simple past and past participle lirked)

1. (transitive, Britain dialectal) To jerk.
2. (transitive, Britain dialectal) To crease; rumple; cause to hang in loose folds.
3. (intransitive, Britain dialectal, Scotland) To become creased or wrinkled.

Etymology 2

From Middle English lerke, from the verb. See above.

Noun

lirk (plural lirks)

1. (transitive, Britain dialectal) A crease; rumple; fold.
2. (transitive, Britain dialectal, Scotland) A fold in the skin; a wrinkle.