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Rumper Hist.|ˈrʌmpə(r)|
[f. rump n.1 3 b.]
A member or supporter of the Rump Parliament.
1660Pepys Diary 7 March, There was all the Rumpers almost come to the House to-day. 1665Winstanley Loy. Martyrology 152 A great Rumper, and Enemy to Royal Government. 1706E. Ward Hud. Rediv. (1707) II. xii. 8 'Cause the Rumpers were about, Thro' Jealousy, to turn him out. 1731–8Swift Pol. Conv. Introd. 34 Blasphemy, or Free-Thinking..[was] after the Restoration, carried to Whitehall by the converted Rumpers. 1826Scott Woodst. xxvi, The possession of such a prize..might obtain from the Rumpers..a reward. 1887J. Westby-Gibson in Dict. Nat. Biog. IX. 460 Chaloner, being elected..for Scarborough, became a zealous ‘rumper’.
So † ˈRumpier. Obs.—1
1665J. Fraser Polichron. (S.H.S.) 349 Alderman Hoyle of York, a great Rumpier. |