rumple
nounEtymology From Middle English rimplen (“to become wrinkled”). Compare German rumpeln (“to din, to make the welkin ring”) and Dutch rommelen (“to rumble”).
1
A wrinkle.
- Related terms
- Rumplestiltskin
rumple
verb/ˈɹʌmpəl/
Etymology From Middle English rimplen (“to become wrinkled”). Compare German rumpeln (“to din, to make the welkin ring”) and Dutch rommelen (“to rumble”).
1
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
To muss; to tousle.
- Derived terms
- rumpler, rumplesome, rumple up, rumply, unrumple