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rumple en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈɹʌmpəl/
  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From Middle English rimplen (“to become wrinkled”). Compare German rumpeln (“to din, to make the welkin ring”) and Dutch rommelen (“to rumble”).

Meanings

  1. A wrinkle.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
rumples Number=Plur lexicographic

Relateds

Rumplestiltskin

rumple en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • /ˈɹʌmpəl/
  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From Middle English rimplen (“to become wrinkled”). Compare German rumpeln (“to din, to make the welkin ring”) and Dutch rommelen (“to rumble”).

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To make wrinkled, particularly fabric.
    • I'll rumple my bedsheets so it looks like I was here last night.
    • They would not give a dog's ear of their most rumpled and ragged Scotch paper for twenty of your fairest assignats. 1790 November, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. […], London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […], →OCLC:
  2. (transitive) To muss; to tousle.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
rumples Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
rumpled Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
rumpled Tense=Past lexicographic
rumpling Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

Deriveds

rumpler · rumplesome · rumple up · rumply · unrumple

Translations (35)

cs zmačkat (to make wrinkled) · sk krčiť (to make wrinkled) · cs rozčepýřit (to muss) · ru мять (to make wrinkled) · es arrugar (to make wrinkled) · az əzmək (to make wrinkled) · cs muchlat (to make wrinkled) · pl zmarszczyć (to make wrinkled) · nl verkreukelen (to make wrinkled) · cmn 弄绉 (to make wrinkled) · fi rypistää (to make wrinkled) · sk pokrčiť (to make wrinkled) · ru смять (to make wrinkled) · pl gnieść (to make wrinkled) · pl marszczyć (to make wrinkled) · cmn 皺褶 /皱褶 (to make wrinkled) · mi tarihahohaho (to make wrinkled) · nn knuvla (to make wrinkled) · cs zmuchlat (to make wrinkled) · ru ско́мкать (to make wrinkled) · pl zmiąć (to make wrinkled) · bg набръчквам (to make wrinkled) · cs rozcuchat (to muss) · cs mačkat (to make wrinkled) · de zerknittern (to make wrinkled) · fr froisser (to make wrinkled) · ja くしゃくしゃにする (to make wrinkled) · ru ко́мкать (to make wrinkled) · cmn 弄皺 /弄皱 (to make wrinkled) · pl miąć (to make wrinkled) · pl pognieść (to make wrinkled) · cs podrbat (vlasy) (to muss) · cs pomačkat (to make wrinkled) · nb knøvle (to make wrinkled) · bg намачквам (to make wrinkled)