different between rumply vs rumple

English

Etymology

rumple +? -y

Adjective

rumply (comparative more rumply, superlative most rumply)

1. rumpled

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”)