Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗The hindquarters of a four-legged mammal, not including its legs · A cut of meat from the rump of an animal. · The buttocks. · A remnant, as in Rump Parliament.
To turn one's back on, to show one's (clothed) backside to, as a sign of disrespect. · To fuck. (Compare bum (verb).) · To cheat. · To ramble; to move (or talk) aimlessly.
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.
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- Derivation mentionrumpeenm
- Derivation mentionrumprnon
- Derivation mentionrumpgml
- Derivation mention*rumpōgem-pro
- Derivation mention*hrimpanągem-pro · to wrinkle
- Cognate mentionrimpelnl
- Cognate mentionrümpfende · to wrinkle
- Cognate mentionῥάμφοςgrc · crooked beak
- Cognate mentionrumpuris
- Cognate mentionrumpasv
- Cognate mentionrompnl
- Cognate mentionRumpfde
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