rump
/ˈɹʌmp/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.05 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The hindquarters of a four-legged mammal, not including its legs
noun
A cut of meat from the rump of an animal.
noun
The buttocks.
noun
A remnant, as in Rump Parliament.
verb
To turn one's back on, to show one's (clothed) backside to, as a sign of disrespect.
Transitive verb
Example Sentences
- "This is the rump of the C.L.C. branch to Southport Lord Street, which lost its passenger services beyond Aintree from January 7, 1952, whereupon the timetable between Gateacre and Aintree was greatly curtailed."
- "And when they succeeded in forcing themselves back upon the King, who loathed them, and had rumped them, they put the Great Seal into Commission, and omitted Lord Brougham's name in the list of the Cabinet."
- "Soon afterwards, meeting the lecturer, whom he had been previously in the habit of greeting with great courtesy, the Duke looked him fairly down, and then rumped him without mercy."
- "When Lord Carteret and the Earl of Sunderland went to court in 1734 to pay their respects after the marriage of Carteret's daughter to Sunderland's brother, John Spencer, MP, the king turned his back upon them ('rumped' them […])."
- "Next day he walked to St James's Palace to be presented to his godfather, the famously rude King George II, who 'rumped' him (turned his back on him) without a word. Hervey's successes at sea had not dispelled the displeasure caused by ..."
- "Rodrigo had also set eyes on a woman at court but I doubt he was rumping her in the hay, like I was with Maria. In Rodrigo's case, it was more a sort of teenager fascination of the unobtainable."
Etymology
From Middle English rumpe, from Old Norse rumpr (“rump”), from Middle Low German rump (“the bulk or trunk of a body, trunk of a tree”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *rumpō (“trunk of a tree, log”). The ultimate origin could be related to Proto-Germanic *hrimpaną (“to wrinkle”) (Dutch rimpel and German rümpfen (“to wrinkle”)); outside of Germanic, compare Ancient Greek ῥάμφος (rhámphos, “crooked beak”). Cognate with Icelandic rumpur (“rump”), Swedish rumpa (“rump”), Dutch romp (“trunk, body, hull”), German Rumpf (“hull, trunk, torso, trunk”). In the sense of remnant, first attested in the Rump Parliament of 1648; its original meaning here was a reference to the rotten, unclean hindquarters of an animal, gradually morphing to refer to the "remnant" aspect of the Parliament rather than its perceived unsavory nature.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: rumpe, rumpr, rump, *rumpō, *hrimpaną
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈɹʌmp/
- British English: /ˈɹʌmp/
Usage
- Transitive verb
- Slang
- British usage
- American usage
- Derogatory
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
Phrases
hog rump
Mexican red rump
rump and stump
rump cap
rump cover
Rump Parliament
rump ranger
rump-ranging
Synonyms
DJT
The Donald
Trump
Cheeto
Dementia Don
Diaper Don
Dirty Donald
Donald Duck
Donald Trumpet
Don Snoreleone
Don the Con
Dozy Don