rumple

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹʌmpəl/

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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 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:

     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.

• rumple up
• rumpler
• unrumple

rumple (plural rumples)

1. A wrinkle.

• Rumplestiltskin

• Lumper, Plumer, lumper, replum

rump (“rump”) +‎ -le

rumple (plural rumples)

1. Diminutive of rump
2. (anatomy) rump, tail, haunches, buttocks, seat

• rumple-bane (“rump-bone, coccyx”)