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ˈrumpled, ppl. a. [f. rumple v. + -ed1.] 1. Wrinkled, crumpled, creased; touzled.
1712Blackmore Creation vi. 282 Each vital speck, in which remains Th'entire, but rumpled, animal. 1743Fielding J. Wild i. ix, A thin covering of a rumpled muslin hand⁓kerchief. 1802M. Edgeworth Moral T. (1816) I. xix. 170 Little rumpled bits of paper, in which the fossils had..been contained. 1840Dickens Barn. Rudge lxxiii, Smoothing the bird's rumpled feathers with his hand. 1880‘Ouida’ Moths I. 35 The dreadful rumpled brown holland. 2. Of eggs: = rumbled ppl. a. 2.
1896Westm. Gaz. 29 Jan. 3/1 The adjutant prepared some rumpled eggs in a manner he had learnt on service. |