rumpn.¹

Brit.

/rʌmp/, U.S.

/rəmp/

Forms: late Middle English rowmpe, late Middle English rumpp, late Middle English–1500s rompe, late Middle English–1600s rumpe, 1600s rompt, 1600s rumpt, 1600s– rump.

Origin: Probably a borrowing from early Scandinavian.

Etymology: Probably < early Scandinavian (compare Icelandic rumpur buttocks (17th cent.), Norwegian rumpe tail, buttocks, Old Danish rumpe, rompe tail, buttocks (Danish rumpe), Old Swedish rumpa, rompa, rumper tail (Swedish rumpa, (now regional) rump, romp tail, (now regional) buttocks), cognate with Middle Dutch romp, rompe, rump trunk, torso, kind of basket (Dutch romp trunk, torso), Middle Low German rump trunk, torso, kind of basket (German regional (Low German) rump), Middle High German (rare) rumph trunk, torso, kind of basket, large wooden bowl (German Rumpf trunk, torso), further etymology uncertain.It has been suggested (H.-J. Schüwer in Niederdeutsches Jahrbuch (1981) 104 88–106) that the original sense was ‘basket made of wickerwork’, and that on this assumption, the Germanic nouns could be < an ablaut variant of the Germanic base of Old English hrimpan (see rimple n.). However, although a sense ‘kind of basket or container (variously made of wickerwork, tree bark, or wood)’ is attested in Middle Dutch, Middle Low German, and Middle High German, this is neither the earliest nor the chief sense of the word in these languages. The suggested etymology would also require the assumption of an unattested sense ‘to weave’ for the Germanic simplex verbs cited at rimple n., as otherwise the semantic development is difficult to account for. The forms rompt, rumpt show an excrescent -t. Apparently attested earlier as a byname and surname: Thurstanus Rumpe (1087–98), Robertus Rumpe (c1170), Radulfus Rumpe (a1205).

I. A part next to or forming a tail.

a. The part of an animal's body to which the tail is attached; the (upper) hindquarters; (in birds) the lower back.In early use perhaps also: a tail (see quot. 1440).

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > animal body > general parts > rump and tail > [noun] > rump

arseeOE

croupc1300

crouponc1400

rumpc1425

rumplec1430

narsea1500

podex1601

poop1611

rump enda1658

breech1710

cushion1710

postabdomen1824

stern1830

bottle1935

dinger1943

ding1957

the world > animals > animal body > general parts > rump and tail > [noun] > tail

taila800

starteOE

mugglec1275

rumpc1425

caude1572

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stern-ornament1885

c1425 Edward, Duke of York Master of Game (Vesp. B.xii) (1904) 12 (MED) An hare þat crompes hure tayle vpon hure rumpe [Fr. eschine] whan she sterteth out of here fourme, as a conyng, it is token she is stronge and wele rennyng.

Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 439 Rumpe [Winch. Rump], tayle, cauda.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 263/2 Rompe of a beest, poiltron, crovpe.

1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iv. f. 158 Theyr tayles dubled and flagging, theyr rumpes and thyes full of feathers.

a1630 F. Moryson in Shakespeare's Europe (1903) ii. v. 214 They fasten them..to the tayles of theire horses, and to the Rompts when the tayles be puld off.

1681 E. R. Experienced Farrier (ed. 2) sig. Lll^v/2 If it get into the Joynt between the top of the Rump and the Tail, then it is known by a Scab, which you may feel with your Finger.

1754 M. Catesby Nat. Hist. Carolina II. 62 This [sc. a skunk] had a List of white, extending from the hind part of the Head, along the Ridge of the Back, to the Rump.

1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VI. 108 The marks of the goose are, a bigger body,..a white ring about the rump.

1830 J. Baxter Libr. Agric. & Hort. Knowl. 452 Sheep..high on the loins, down on the rumps.

1884 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds (ed. 2) 94 In general, we should call the anterior two-thirds or three-fourths of notæum ‘back’, and the rest ‘rump’.

a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. xx. 536 Conspicuous white patches, as on the wheatear's rump, may help to distract the enemy's eye from more vulnerable parts.

1981 L. Alderson in K. Thear & A. Fraser Compl. Bk. Raising Livestock & Poultry v. 126/2 The crayon leaves a mark on the rump of the ewe to show that she has been mated.

2005 D. Cruickshank Around World in 80 Treasures 158 I noticed that most carriage horses have blankets tied over their rumps.

b. A person's buttocks; the backside; (in extended use) the anus, the rectum.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > back > buttock(s) > [noun]

flitcha700

arse-endseOE

culec1220

buttockc1300

tail1303

toutec1305

nagea1325

fundamentc1325

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brawna1382

buma1387

bewschers?a1400

crouponc1400

rumplec1430

lendc1440

nachec1440

luddocka1475

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croupc1475

rumpc1475

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bumfiddle1661

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butt1675

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toby1681

bung1691

rear1716

fud1722

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rass1790

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nancy1819

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behinda1830

duff?1837

botty1842

rear end1851

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hinder?1857

sit1862

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stern-works1879

tuchus1886

jacksy-pardy1891

sit-upon1910

can1913

truck-end1913

sitzfleisch1916

B.T.M.1919

fanny1919

bot1922

heinie1922

beam1929

yas yas1929

keister1931

batty1935

bim1935

arse-end1937

twat1937

okole1938

bahookie1939

bohunkus1941

quoit1941

patoot1942

rusty-dusty1942

dinger1943

jacksie1943

zatch1950

ding1957

booty1959

patootie1959

buns1960

wazoo1961

tush1962

the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > intestines > [noun] > large intestine > rectum > anus

fundamentc1325

tewelc1386

arseholea1400

hindwina1400

eyec1405

anus?a1425

nachec1440

bung-hole?a1560

siege1561

vent1587

touch-hole1602

nockhole1610

bumhole1611

dung gate1619

asshole1865

cornholec1920

okole1938

chuff1945

ring1949

ring-piece1949

buttholea1960

rump1959

brown eye1967

poephol1969

c1475 (c1450) P. Idley Instr. to his Son (Cambr.) (1935) ii. B. l. 44 (MED) Go firther, than, to the shap of hir clothis: They be cutted on the buttok even aboue the rompe.

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. viii. sig. H4^v At her rompe she growing had behind A foxes taile.

1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida v. ii. 55 The diuell Luxury with his fat rumpe and potato finger.

1668 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. T. Bartholin Anat. (new ed.) iv. xv. 351 That Danish Boy, who had a Tail growing out at his Rump.

1740 W. Somervile Hobbinol i. 307 He on his Hams, or on his brawny Rump Sliding secure, derides their vain Distress.

1805 J. Adams Anal. Horsemanship (new ed.) II. 21 When galloping at full speed, you may find it necessary to thrust your rump out further behind..to support your horse.

1879 Harlequin Prince Cherrytop 28 I'll wager long odds He frequently sods Your plump little rump.

1932 T. E. Lawrence tr. Homer Odyssey (new ed.) xvii. 237 In passing he back-heeled Odysseus savagely in the rump, but nevertheless failed to jolt him off the path, so solidly he stood.

1959 J. Cheever Jrnls. (1991) 109 I go with Ben to the doctor and he slips his finger up his rump.

1992 G. Swift Ever After xiii. 167 He watched the denimed rump of one of the passing cyclists.

c. The part of an animal's tail which is next to the body; the base or stump of the tail. Chiefly in rump of the tail. Also in extended use. Now rare.

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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > rump and tail > [noun] > tail > part next to body

rump1608

tail-head1704

1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 115 The length of it from the tip of the Nose to the rumpe of the taile, is 7. or 8. fingers.

1676 J. Moxon Regulæ Trium Ordinum 34 Q hath its Body made like O. The Rump of the Tail is made by drawing a straight line from Parallel 12½.

1745 P. Thomas True Jrnl. Voy. South-Seas 40 Two [fins]..with a small Rump of a Tail between them.

1771 T. James Hist. Herculean Straits I. i. vi. 93 The form of Spain is supposed to be like unto an ox's hide stretched out..; and the rump of the tail, the part I am treating of, upon the side of the Fretum Herculeum.

1829 W. Harley Harleian Dairy Syst. v. 111 A currycomb with a long handle was then applied to the rump of the tail, forehead, neck, &c.

1920 Dogdom Apr. 73/1 One of them breaks out with small pimples at the rump of the tail occasionally.

a. This part of an animal used as food; a piece or cut of meat from an animal's hindquarters.

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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > part or joint of animal > [noun] > rump

butta1450

rump1469

buttock1593

tut1856

1469 in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (1790) 95 The hyndre shankes of the mutton with the rumpe.

1486 Bk. St. Albans sig. cviii (MED) She tytith vppon Rumppys; She fedith on all maner of flesch.

1567 G. Turberville Epitaphes, Epigrams f. 111 When my back is turnde and gon, Another giues thee rumpes to tyre vpon.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Cimier, the vpper part of a rumpe of Beefe, &c., next, or neere, vnto the chine.

1688 S. Penton Guardian's Instr. 52 Treated at an Ale-house with a Rump of Beef.

1710 J. Addison Tatler No. 148. ⁋1 The Maids of Honour in Queen Elizabeth's Time were allowed Three Rumps of Beef for their Breakfast.

1796 E. Burke Let. to Noble Lord in Wks. (1815) VIII. 63 The poor ox..is divided into rumps, and sirloins, and briskets, and into all sorts of pieces.

1830 M. Donovan Domest. Econ. II. iv. 237 I caused a rump of beef..to be immersed in..cold water, for three hours.

1883 J. Gilmour Among Mongols ix. 114 To present the rump and tail was the highest honour that a host could offer a guest at a feast.

1953 R. Howe & P. Espir Sultan's Pleasure Recipes 41 The meat..is cut, as always, from the rump into long strips and then wound round the spit.

1999 BBC Good Food July 77/4 Skirt is a tender, flavoursome cut. It is cheaper than sirloin or rump, but very lean.

b. spec. Such a piece of meat burned or roasted symbolically on a bonfire to mark the final downfall of the Rump Parliament (see Rump Parliament n. at Compounds 2 and cf. sense 4b). Chiefly in to burn (also roast) the rump. Also in extended use. Now historical.

ΚΠ

1660 S. Pepys Diary 11 Feb. (1970) I. 52 In King-streete, seven or eight [bonfires]; and all along burning and roasting and drinking for rumps.

c1665 L. Hutchinson Mem. Col. Hutchinson (1973) 224 When the youths were gathering to make bonfires to burne the rump, as the custome of those mad dayes [sc. 1660] were.

1680 London Gaz. No. 1497/4 Several Apprentices..had formed a design..to come together in a considerable number on the Kings Birth-day, as they pretended, To Burn the Rump.

1754 Question Previous to Bill paying National Debt 11 It became at length more popular to burn the Rump than it had been to burn the Pope.

1823 I. D'Israeli Curiosities of Lit. 2nd Ser. III. 434 The rabble in town and country vied with each other in burning the ‘Rump’; and the literal emblem was hung by chains on gallowses, with a bonfire underneath, while the cries of ‘Let us burn the Rump! Let us roast the Rump’ were echoed every where.

1871 W. D. Christie Anthony Ashley Cooper II. xvii. 362 Thomas Alford, who had been apprehended as leader in a design of burning the Rump in the City on the King's birthday.

1924 C. W. Camp Artisan in Elizabethan Lit. iv. 140 In the fifth act [of John Tatham's The Rump (1660)] apprentices..enter with faggots on their shoulders and rumps of mutton on spits. ‘Roast the rump’ is their cry: they are about to make a public ceremony that represents the destruction of the Rump Parliament.

2007 J. Miller Cities Divided vii. 168 The Tories of Salisbury responded [to the Exclusion Crisis of 1681] by burning the pope..; at Shaftesbury they burned the Rump.

a. A part of something resembling a rump, esp. in shape or location.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > position at the back > [noun] > back part or rear > resembling something spec.

talon1485

rump1630

1630 J. Taylor Wks. 112 Then shall a man depart our strands, Borne 'twixt the Rumps of two great Lands.

1729 A. Motte tr. I. Newton Math. Princ. Nat. Philos. II. iii. 359 The tail [of the comet] arose to 10° above the rump of the swan [i.e. the constellation Cygnus].

1836 Bell's Syst. Geogr. (new ed.) IV. 635 This country [sc. Cambodia] is the southern extremity of that long neck of land which lies between the two gulfs of Siam and Tonquin, forming what might be termed the rump of the Chinese empire.

1852 G. P. Badger Nestorians I. 254 We left Amedia at 7 a.m., and..made the western rump of Jebel Gara about noon.

1926 E. Walrond Tropic Death 17 Black peons gathered on the rumps of breadfruit or cherry trees in abject supplication.

1972 G. M. Brown Greenvoe (1976) ii. 50 ‘Not one,’ said Bert Kerston, his cheeks like two rumps of beetroot. ‘Not one bloody lobster.’

2003 G. Shteyngart Russ. Debutante's Handbk. viii. xxxv. 419 An empty dirtyard facing the rump of a low, gray municipal building.

b. A contrivance worn beneath the skirt of a woman's dress in order to expand and support it behind, a bustle. Now historical.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > underwear > [noun] > contrivance for expanding skirts > bustle, pads, or cushion

bum roll1602

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Scotch bum1607

Scotch fall1607

rump roll1707

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bustler1787

cushion1806

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bishopa1860

tournure1872

1710 E. Ward Nuptial Dialogues & Deb. II. x. 196 No, Lady, you shall first reduce your Pomp, Reform your Dress, and low'r your cockling Rump.

1778 Tailors i. ii. 6 Their proud dames..whose mantuas sweep the ground, With heads made up of wool, and rumps of cork.

1807 R. Southey Lett. from Eng. II. xlix. 335 There were protuberances on the hips called bustlers, another behind which was called in plain language a rump.

1870 M. Paine Inst. Med. (new ed.) 370 The deformities of the corset, or the artificial rump, elegances in polished society.

1985 S. Gilman Difference & Pathol. 259 The ‘bum rolls’ of the seventeenth century and the ‘cork rumps’ of the eighteenth century had already established a general association.

1991 S. Faludi Backlash ii. vii. 172 Christian Dior unveiled the ‘New Look’—actually an old late-Victorian look—featuring crinolined rumps, corseted waists, and long ballooning skirts.

II. A remaining part.

a. A small, unimportant, or contemptible remnant or remainder of an (official) body of people, esp. a parliament (cf. sense 4b).

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the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > that which is left or remainder > [noun] > the rest > of persons > a small remaining number of persons

remnanta1382

remainder1567

rump1649

racemation1650

1649 C. Walker Anarchia Anglicana ii. 32 This fagge end, this Rump of a Parliament with corrupt Maggots in it.

1659 England's Confusion 22 This Rumpe of a casheered House of Commons.

a1732 T. Boston Memoirs (1776) x. 297 The people running away into it..so that the rump of the meeting seemed only to remain.

1795 E. Burke Let. 22 May (1969) VIII. 251 My Business with the House of Lords is over for the present—for they have, or a Rump of them, have done their own Business pretty handsomely.

1818 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 33 8 What remains of it, is the Rump of the old Committee.

1848 Sc. Mag. Oct. 480 She [sc. Scotland] was left with but a ‘rump’ of very common-place intellects.

1877 W. Morris in J. W. Mackail Life W. Morris (1899) I. 349 The Tory Rump that we fools chose at the last election to represent us.

1965 G. Grant Lament for Nation ii.10 After Bennett's defeat in 1935, the Conservative party became a rump, with nearly all its strength in Ontario.

2004 Guardian 19 Apr. i. 15/3 Far from being a rump of Saddamist malcontents, the resistance enjoys broad based support.

b. With the and capital initial. That part of the Long Parliament which remained after Pride's Purge of 1648 (see Pride's Purge n. at purge n. 3b), and which sat firstly from 1648 to 1653 when it was dissolved by Oliver Cromwell, and again from May 1659 to February 1660, when it was finally dissolved by General George Monck. Cf. Rump Parliament n. at Compounds 2. now historical. [For slightly earlier use of rump (with reference to formation of 1648 to 1653) see quot. 1649 at sense 4a. Compare also:

1662 A. Brome Rump (new ed.) To Rdr. sig. A3^v Now if you ask who nam'd it Rump, know 'twas so stil'd in an honest Sheet of Paper (call'd The Bloody Rump) written before the Tryal of our late Soveraign of Glorious Memory: but the Word obtain'd not universal notice till it flew from the mouth of Major General Brown at a Publick Assembly in the daies of Richard Cromwell.

1709 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1886) II. 329 Which word Rump had it's name first from Mr. Clem. Walker in his History of Independency printed in 1648 and was given to those..members that strenuously oppos'd the King.

]

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > governing or legislative body of a nation or community > English or British parliament > [noun] > a particular English or British parliament > specific

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Good Parliament1580

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Unlearned Parliament1643

Long Parliament1646

rump?1653

Short Parliament1653

lay Parliament1655

Barebone's Parliament1657

Rump Parliament1659

Little Parliamenta1675

Long Parliament1678

Pensioner Parliament1678

Pensioned Parliament1681

Bluestocking Parliamenta1683

Pension Parliament1682

Pensionary Parliament1690

marvellous Parliament?1706

rumple1725

lack-learning Parliament1765

unreported Parliament1839

Cavalier Parliament1849

Addled Parliament1857

merciless Parliament1875

wonderful Parliament1878

nominated Parliament1898

?1653 (title) A catalogue of the lords, knights and gentlemen (of the Catholick religion) that were slain in the late warr, in defence of their King and countrey. As also of those whose estates were sold by the late Rump for that cause.

1659 C. Hatton Let. to Hyde 23 Dec. in MS Clarendon 68 It would be opportune if the City and Fleetwood join against the Rump.

1660 S. Pepys Diary 22 Feb. (1970) I. 64 Major-Generall Brown, who hath a long time been banished by the Rump.

1681 Arraignm.,Tryal & Condemnation S. Colledge 117 It was the Garbage of that Parliament I am sure, that is the Rump, but they called themselves the Parliament of England.

1725 B. Higgons Hist. & Crit. Remarks Burnet's Hist. 94 His Quarrel to Cromwell, was his having depos'd the Rump, and usurp'd the Power in a single Person.

1757 D. Hume Hist. Great Brit. II. iii. 97 It was agreed, that, laying aside former enmities, all efforts should be used for the overthrow of the Rump; For so they called the Parliament.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. i. 147 The Rump and the soldiers were still hostile to the House of Stuart. But the Rump was universally detested and despised.

1878 N. Amer. Rev. 126 538 This office he [sc. Milton] held during the Rump, under five successive councils of state.

1910 J. A. R. Marriott Second Chambers iii. 33 The judicial power of the House of Lords was held to be vested in the Rump.

1975 C. P. Korr Cromwell & New Model Foreign Policy viii. 102 These diplomats were looking at the Protectorate Council of State through eyes they had used during the Rump and the Barebones.

1991 Past & Present Aug. 50 The Rump's 1650 Act against Adulterers and Fornicators brought more sexual delinquencies before the justices.

c. The rest or remainder of a thing; a remnant.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > that which is left or remainder > [noun] > the rest

lave971

otherOE

remanantc1350

remnanta1375

surplusc1400

remanent1414

reversionc1450

rest?1473

remain1483

allowance1521

reliquation1658

rump1708

balance1788

1708 Brit. Apollo 24–26 Nov. You [sc. the periodical The British Apollo] are..the Rump of the Athenian Oracle.

1878 J. Sands Out of World (ed. 2) ix. 122 (heading) What should be done with the rump of the Kelso Fund.

1899 Philos. Rev. 8 375 We reach the conclusion, ‘Some things are’, and we might even cut this down to ‘Things are’, which is just the rump of the original premises.

1942 Time 20 Apr. 22/1 On March 15, 1939, he [sc. Hitler] occupied the rump of Czecho-Slovakia.

2006 Times (Nexis) 5 Aug. (Features section) 5 The 20-odd Decimus Burton villas in the park are but the rump of the 200-odd originally planned.

Phrases

P1.

rump and dozen n. now archaic (a) a rump of beef and a dozen bottles of claret, usually as a wager; (b) corporal punishment administered on the buttocks.Sense (b) apparently represents an isolated use.

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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > beef > [noun] > other cuts or parts

tild1342

ox foota1398

oxtaila1425

neat's foot?c1450

beef-flick1462

sticking piece1469

ox-tonguea1475

aitch-bone1486

fore-crop?1523

sirloin1525

mouse-piece1530

ox-cheek1592

neat's tongue1600

clod1601

sticking place1601

skink1631

neck beef1640

round1660

ox-heart1677

runner1688

sticking draught1688

brisket-beef1697

griskin1699

sey1719

chuck1723

shin1736

gravy beef1747

baron of beef1755

prime rib1759

rump and dozen1778

mouse buttock1818

slifta1825

nine holes1825

spauld-piece1828

trembling-piece1833

shoulder-lyar1844

butt1845

plate1854

plate-rand1854

undercut1859

silver-side1861

bed1864

wing rib1883

roll1884

strip-loin1884

hind1892

topside1896

rib-eye1926

buttock meat1966

onglet1982

1778 Example ix. 61 ‘Come—I'll bet you a rump and dozen,’ said he, ‘I guess the questions you are going to ask!’

1788 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (ed. 2) at Rump Rump and dozen, a rump of beef and a dozen of claret.

1812 Sporting Mag. 39 112 A bet of a rump and dozen was laid of this important point.

1833 J. Romilly Diary 20 Mar. in Cambridge Diary (1967) 31 The original bet was 1 G[ui]n[e]a, but Sedgwick proposed a rump & dozen.

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xii. [Cyclops] 315 A rump and dozen, says the citizen, was what that old ruffian sir John Beresford called if [sic] but the modern God's Englishman calls it caning on the breech.

1944 L. De La Torre Dr. Sam (1946) 224 ‘A wager,’ he cried. ‘A rump and dozen that I'm returned for Westminster.’

P2. colloquial and regional. rump and stump [compare German (now rare) mit Rumpf und Stumpf (16th cent.), in the same sense] : through and through; completely, entirely (see also stump and rump at stump n.¹ 3i).

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the world > relative properties > wholeness > completeness > completely [phrase]

high and low1397

every (also ilk, ilka) stick?a1400

root and rind?a1400

hair and hide?c1450

stout and routc1450

bane and routc1480

overthwart and endlonga1500

(in) hide and hairc1575

right out1578

horse and footc1600

flesh and fella1616

root and branch1640

stab and stow1680

stoop and roop1728

stick, stock, stone dead1796

rump and stump1824

stump and rump1825

rump and rig1843

good and1885

1824 J. Mactaggart Sc. Gallovidian Encycl. 499 Up rump and stump did Auchen burn.

1887 S. Moore & E. Aveling tr. K. Marx Capital I. ii. vi. 146 The owner of the labour-power should sell it only for a definite period, for if he were to sell it rump and stump [Ger. in Bausch und Bogen], once for all, he would be selling himself.

1892 J. E. Muddock Detective's Triumphs 55 My man..bought the place. Bought it! Yes. Rump and stump.

1943 C. Richter Free Man vii. 71 It was dark as a sack down the chimney... He had got himself into it now, rump and stump, and nobody better light a fire below him.

2002 Northern Echo (Nexis) 14 Nov. 13 You know, cleaning the plate, rump and stump.

†P3. English regional (Yorkshire). rump and rig: = rump and stump at Phrases 2. Obsolete.

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the world > relative properties > wholeness > completeness > completely [phrase]

high and low1397

every (also ilk, ilka) stick?a1400

root and rind?a1400

hair and hide?c1450

stout and routc1450

bane and routc1480

overthwart and endlonga1500

(in) hide and hairc1575

right out1578

horse and footc1600

flesh and fella1616

root and branch1640

stab and stow1680

stoop and roop1728

stick, stock, stone dead1796

rump and stump1824

stump and rump1825

rump and rig1843

good and1885

1843 J. Castillo Awd Isaac 20 They say they're Britons rump an' rig.

Compounds

C1.

a. General attributive.

(a) (In sense 1a.)

rump feather n.

ΚΠ

1738 E. Albin Nat. Hist. Birds II. 76 The Rump Feathers incumbent on the Tail are for the most part white, only spotted in the middle with brown.

2005 Auk 122 297 Some specimens lack the chrome orange edge in the rump feathers.

rump gland n.

ΚΠ

1833 Field Naturalist 1 75 (title) On the rump gland in birds.

1979 Amer. Zoologist 19 424/2 Pine voles possess specialized rump glands.

rump patch n.

ΚΠ

1857 S. F. Baird Gen. Rep. Zool.: Mammals (U.S. War Dept.: Rep. Explor. Route to Pacific) 640 The hairs in the whitish rump-patch are longer than elsewhere on the buttocks.

1948 A. L. Rand Mammals E. Rockies 206 Elk... Sides of body yellowish brown, rump patch lighter.

(b) (In sense 2a.)

rump beef n.

ΚΠ

1689 Muses Farew. to Popery 18 A lazy Mass of damn'd Rump Beef.

1823 M. Holderness New Russia v. 55 We bought here 38 lbs. of rump beef at ten kopeeks.

2009 Mirror (Ulster ed.) (Nexis) 25 Apr. 39 16oz of rump beef in two burgers with bacon, cheese and tomato.

rump roast n.

ΚΠ

1890 New Pract. Housek. 643 The rump or upper part of hind leg, good for pot roasts; beef a la mode; corned beef and rump roasts.

1976 National Observer (U.S.) 22 May 20/4 Right in the Rump Roast.

2004 New Yorker 5 July 38/2 A rump roast was in the oven, seasoned with salt, pepper, and ginger.

rump steak n.

ΚΠ

1709 E. Ward Secret Hist. Clubs xxxii. 386 A Rump Steak, in which we glory, Was always Poyson to a Tory.

1760 O. Goldsmith in Brit. Mag. Oct. 577/2 Bad as it was it seemed a rump steak to me.

1886 C. E. Pascoe London of To-day (ed. 3) ii. 40 A mutton-chop or rump-steak may be readily got from the nearest butcher's.

2009 Evening Post (Bristol) (Nexis) 4 Nov. 6 There is a very good children's menu including a 6oz rump steak and scampi.

(c) (In senses 4a and 4b.)

rump caucus n.

ΚΠ

1900 Railroad Telegrapher Sept. 760/1 No doubt 52 would have been able to secure a rump Caucus from among the members.

1933 Sun (Baltimore) 19 Apr. 1/7 The incipient revolt as reflected in the rump caucus of Democratic inflationists.

1996 D. W. Murray Democracy of Despots xi. 166 Those left defending the president's interests in parliament were reduced to a rump caucus.

† rump-general n. Obsolete

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c1742 J. W. Full & Compl. Hist. Notorious Highwaymen 39 He got a rich Gold Watch, set with Diamonds, from the Lady Fairfax, the Rump General's Wife.

1826 W. E. Andrews Crit. & Hist. Rev. Fox's Bk. Martyrs II. 27 A rump-general, namely, John Lambert.

† rump groat n. Obsolete

ΚΠ

1731 Gentleman's Mag. 1 537 A Silver pair of Breeches neatly wrought, (Such as you see upon an old Rump Groat).

rump junta n.

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1935 Times 19 June 2/2 The Westminster Rump-juntas of our own day.

2001 E. Van Young Other Rebellion ii. 13 One of the triumvirate who controlled the rump junta of Zitácuaro.

Rump man n.

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1660 Hist. 2nd Death Rump 1/2 Some Packs he inveagles, O' th' blood-coated Beagles, To's partie; the Rump~men did so too.

1840 Pict. Hist. Eng. III. i. 431/2 The army men and the Rump men, came into fierce collision.

1951 E. Hahn A. Behn ii. 74 Monk treated him courteously and invited him with others of the old Rump men to join the new Parliament's discussions.

rump meeting n.

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1891 Latter-Day Saints' Millennial Star 26 Jan. 55 Finding themselves thwarted, the malcontents held a ‘rump’ meeting, and selected Mr. Jesse White as speaker.

1935 Sun (Baltimore) 10 Dec. 2/7 Mr. Berry..declared the meeting adjourned, and Dr. Haake and his confreres edged their way out to the sidewalk, where they threatened for a time to hold a ‘rump meeting’.

2002 R. J. Branham & S. J. Hartnett Sweet Freedom's Song i. 25 A rump meeting of loyalist ‘friends to order and government’ assembled at a private home.

rump member n.

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1685 A. Lovell tr. G. Bate Elenchus Motuum Nuperorum in Anglia ii. 162 The Rump-Members loaded with publick Hatred, and sad Hearts, departed home, as they were commanded.

1704 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion III. xvi. 566 They made no doubt but the Rump Members would again resume the Government.

1844 F. Lloyd Hampton Court I. 164 Several experiments..were cruelly played off with immense success upon the Rump member, his son, and guests.

1999 J. D. Spence Search for Mod. China (ed. 2) iv. xiv. 315 There was no longer any attempt to coordinate political decisions with the rump members of the old Parliament.

rump party n.

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1682 T. May Arbitrary Govt. Display'd 204 Lastly they consult about dissolving themselves, to which the Rump party, were very unwilling.

1771 E. Kimber & R. Johnson Wotton's Baronetage of Eng. II. xxliii. 407 He was slain at Manchester, by the rump party.

1959 Ann. Reg. 1958 121 Rump parties would continue to exist and split the anti-P.A.P. vote.

2009 Edmonton (Alberta) Jrnl. (Nexis) 10 Oct. b1 The Wildrose Alliance, once a joke of a rural rump party, trounced the Tories.

rump senate n.

ΚΠ

1709 R. Gould Wks. I. 313 Why shou'd our Royal Martyr lose his Head And a Rump Senate Govern in his Stead?

1861 J. E. B. Mayor Introd. Cicero, Philipp. ii. (1881) p. xvii The rump senate, thus brought together, was convened by Antonius and Cassius.

2000 N.Y. Post (Nexis) 23 Nov. 4 If there's only a rump Senate, can it even count electoral votes as the Constitution requires?

rump-state n.

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1893 Amer. Nonconformist 23 Mar. 4/3 Certainly the people will object to supporting them any longer if no other duty can be found for them than suppressing rump state governments.

1923 M. H. H. Macartney Five Years European Chaos iv. 80 Death, damnation, and destruction..have driven the disunited rump States of Austria and Hungary to depend upon the charity of their former enemies.

2000 Wall St. Jrnl. 15 June b17/3 A mandatory-retirement proposal to force Mr. Panic, the former prime minister of the rump-state of Yugoslavia, and several other directors to step down.

† Rump-time n. Obsolete

ΚΠ

1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words at Candlemass It sutes with Colonel Barksteads wisdom, who in the Rump time committed a Papist for being at an Evening Mass..at an Ambassadors House in Longacre.

1716 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1901) V. 296 Of whose being sequestred in the Rump-Time I have heard much.

b. Instrumental.

rump-fed adj.

ΚΠ

a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) i. iii. 5 Aroynt thee, Witch, the rumpe-fed Ronyon cryes.

1899 Contemp. Rev. Dec. 776 The Conservative Working Man exchanges his birthright of freedom and free thought for a pat on the head from any little rump-fed lord that steps his way.

2006 National Post (Canada) (Nexis) 23 Oct. a13 Canadians deserve good government rather than the all too frequent braying of fawning rump-fed clotpoles looking for headlines.

c. Locative.

† rumpgalled adj. Obsolete rare

ΚΠ

1631 B. Jonson Bartholmew Fayre ii. ii. 18 in Wks. II You'll neuer thinke of any thing, till your dame be rumpgall'd.

rump-spotted adj.

ΚΠ

1897 H. O. Forbes Hand-bk. Primates II. 72 The Rump-spotted Guenon. Cercopithecus opisthostictus.

1994 W. W. Johnstone Dreams of Eagles (2004) xii. 110 For this trip, Jamie would ride..a big rump-spotted stallion the Nez Perce called ‘appaloosa’.

C2.

† rump-and-kidney man n. Obsolete rare a fiddler who plays at local events and dines on leftover food.

ΚΠ

1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Rump-and-Kidney Men, Fidlers that Play at Feasts, Fairs,..&c. And Live chiefly on the Remnants of Victuals.

rump band n. a leather band passing over the rump of a horse to support the trace-chains.

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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > straps

lorainc1290

lingel1460

breeching1515

breastplate1578

martingale1584

rudstay1688

running martingale1747

breastband1783

breast collar1789

rump band1844

check-strap1857

kicking-strap1861

point1875

strapping1882

1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm III. 1192 The rump-band is hooked on to the trace-chains.

1998 Jrnl. Range Managem. 51 545/2 The faecal bag is made from tough, durable plastic and attaches to the rump band.

rump end n. = senses 1, 2a; also in extended use.

ΚΠ

a1658 J. Cleveland Answer Pamphlet in Wks. (1687) 105 A most acute Apothegm..and such on one as may well beseem the Rump-end of Licosthenes at the next Impression.

1765 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy VII. xxi. 71 The gardener..led out the two old mules to clip the hair from the rump-ends of their tails.

1860 R. F. Williams Domest. Mem. II. v. 134 The yeomen..shared the sticking-place, the flanks, and the rump end of beef.

1943 E. Pound in E. Mullins This Difficult Individual (1961) x. 232 The territory already crushed and defiled by..the rump end of the mercantile system.

2008 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 17 May 22 There now appears the rump end of a digging wombat, claws showing on his disappearing hind legs.

† rump-evil n. Obsolete rare a disease affecting the rump of birds, perhaps inflammation of the oil gland.

ΚΠ

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Mal de cropion, the rumpe-euill; a disease wherewith all birds..are sometimes troubled.

rump government n. a small remaining part of a government; (also) an unofficial government.

ΚΠ

1685 in A. Lovell tr. T. Skinner Hist. Affairs Eng. Table sig. *H^v, in tr. G. Bate Elenchus Motuum Nuperorum in Anglia Rump-Government, 5. & inf. Rump and Army at variance, 10.

1861 Richmond (Va.) Examiner 4 Dec. 3/3 It may very reasonably be doubted how far General Sherman or his officers would suffer schemes so vitally important to the Rump Government to leak out through the indiscretions of loquacious volunteers.

1937 Nation 6 Nov. 419/1 The Franco rump government in Spain.

1993 Soldier of Fortune Feb. 17/2 Serb-controlled Yugoslavian rump government threatens to send Yugoslav army into Bosnia-Herzegovina.

† rump jewel n. Obsolete a jewel worn on a decorative or peripheral part of a garment; (also) the last jewel in a collection.

ΚΠ

1691 T. Shadwell Scowrers ii. i. 15 That must be my sweet Ducklin—I know her by her pretty waddle in her Gate—besides I have had a sight of her Rump Jewel.

1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 245. ⁋2 A Crochet of 122 Diamonds,..with a Rump Jewel after the same Fashion.

1772 P. Stockdale Life E. Waller p. xlix His principal fund..was his wife's jewels;..he jocularly told his friends that he was come to the rump-jewel.

1882 J. Ashton Social Life Reign of Queen Anne I. xiv. 165 (note) The extremely bouffée furbelows were called rumpt furbelows, and the brooches inserted in the centre were called rump jewels or rumphlets.

Rump Parliament n. the remaining part of the Long Parliament, esp. in its second formation of 1659–60 (see sense 4b) (now historical); (later also in extended use, frequently without capital initials) any parliamentary body resembling this.

ΘΚΠ

great Parliamentc1450

Good Parliament1580

addle parliament1614

giunto1641

junto1641

Unlearned Parliament1643

Long Parliament1646

rump?1653

Short Parliament1653

lay Parliament1655

Barebone's Parliament1657

Rump Parliament1659

Little Parliamenta1675

Long Parliament1678

Pensioner Parliament1678

Pensioned Parliament1681

Bluestocking Parliamenta1683

Pension Parliament1682

Pensionary Parliament1690

marvellous Parliament?1706

rumple1725

lack-learning Parliament1765

unreported Parliament1839

Cavalier Parliament1849

Addled Parliament1857

merciless Parliament1875

wonderful Parliament1878

nominated Parliament1898

1659 A. Brome (title) Ratts Rhimed to Death. Or, the Rump-Parliament Hang'd up in the shambles.

1725 B. Higgons Hist. & Crit. Remarks Burnet's Hist. 100 His [sc. Monk's] Address..in perswading the Rump Parliament to dislodge the disaffected Troops at London.

1797 F. M. Eden State of Poor I. i. ii. 173 The repeated complaints and convincing statements..induced the Rump Parliament..to pass the celebrated Navigation Act.

1838 New Yorker 17 Feb. 764/1 What prevents Congress from declaring itself perpetual—a rump Parliament?

1845 T. Carlyle in O. Cromwell Lett. & Speeches II. 181 Such was the destructive wrath of my Lord General Cromwell against the Nominal Rump Parliament of England.

1908 H. C. Shelley Untrodden Eng. Ways iv. 64 When the Rump Parliament demanded his [sc. Richard Cromwell's] resignation his essential weakness of character was revealed in his quiet acceptance.

1976 New Yorker 22 Mar. 98/2 Krishnan Kant recently made an..indictment..in what could properly be called the rump Parliament, inasmuch as so many of both its opposition and its Congress members have been jailed.

2004 New Yorker 17 May 71/1 Iraqis from all sectors of society gathering..to choose an advisory body, or rump parliament.

† rump-poke n. Obsolete rare a skua (genus Stercorarius).

ΚΠ

1821 A. Welby Visit N. Amer. 8 We also saw yesterday a large brown bird pursuing a Gull, and understood its name to be Rump-poke. An appropriate appellation, as it pursues other birds for their droppings.

rump-post n. Ornithology the pygostyle of a bird; the ploughshare bone.

ΚΠ

1890 E. Coues Handbk. Field & Gen. Ornithol. ii. iv. 210 That extraordinary affair called the rump-post or pygostyle.

2000 E. B. Banning Archaeologist's Lab. x. 192/1 There are often..up to ten fused elements that form an upturned rump-post, or pygostyle, for moving the bird's tail feathers.

rump roll n. rare (now historical) a type of bustle (cf. sense 3b).

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > underwear > [noun] > contrivance for expanding skirts > bustle, pads, or cushion

bum roll1602

roll1602

Scotch bum1607

Scotch fall1607

rump roll1707

rump1710

bustle1786

bustler1787

cushion1806

dress improver1842

improver1844

bishopa1860

tournure1872

1707 J. Stevens tr. F. de Quevedo Comical Wks. 450 A vast Fardel of Rags..compos'd a Rump-rowl.

2007 K. V. W. Keller Dance & Music in Amer. vi. 607 Fig. 129 No hoops here! In this satire by Matthew Darly (London: 1776), the ladies use only small panniers or rump rolls to support their dresses.

rump rope n. a rope used to secure an animal round the rump.

ΚΠ

1820 W. Scoresby Acct. Arctic Regions II. 296 The rump then, supported by a tackle, is drawn forward by means of a stout rope, called the rump-rope.

1992 Rangelands 14 7/1 Once the horse was on the ground, the crew removed the sling and put on..a rump rope to aid in loading.

rumpspringing n. (in a garment) the fact of becoming baggy in the seat.

ΚΠ

1954 Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. xxi. 35 Rumpspringing: pres. part., n., of a skirt, the act of bagging in the seat, caused by sitting. An inner lining is sometimes used to prevent rumpspringing... Rumpsprung: adj.

1970 Oneonta (N.Y.) Daily Star 18 Dec. 9/8 To avoid rumpspringing in double knits, a slip lining or an underlining may be used in the skirt back.

rumpsprung adj. (of a chair, etc.) sprung in the seat; (of a garment) that has become baggy in the seat; also in extended use.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > support > hanging or suspension > [adjective] > hanging down > specifically in the seat

rumpsprung1939

the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > back > buttock(s) > [adjective] > types of

pin-buttocked1566

strong-dockeda1652

swag-buttockeda1652

callipygian1818

pin-tailed1825

fat-arsed1891

callipygous1923

rumpsprung1939

steatopygial1978

1939 C. Morley Kitty Foyle xiii. 131 Pop creaking in his rumpsprung wicker chair.

1962 San Antonio (Texas) Light 3 June (Weekly section) 8/3 Rumpsprung gabardine skirts with nondescript paisley blouses do not guarantee failure.

1975 Weekend Mag. (Montreal) 31 May 9/1 In the hallway, his rumpsprung wife is making a blasé remark about the new labor code.

2003 Daily Herald (Chicago) 15 Aug. vi. 49/1 I'm the MotoGP world champion... And I did it all without leaving my rump-sprung recliner.

rump strap n. = rump band n.

ΚΠ

1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm III. 1192 The trace-horse is harnessed with back-strap, rump-strap, and crupper.

2000 Jrnl. Zoo & Wildlife Med. 31 121/1 The rump strap was adjusted to support the tuber ischii and caudal thigh muscles.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

rumpv.

Brit.

/rʌmp/, U.S.

/rəmp/

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Perhaps also partly a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymons: rump n.¹; romp v.

Etymology: < rump n.¹ In sense 1 perhaps originally an alteration of romp v. by association with rump n.¹

Chiefly slang.

a. intransitive, and transitive with it. To have sexual intercourse, to engage in sexual activity. Cf. romp v. 1. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > entertainment > frolicking or romping > frolic [verb (intransitive)]

floxec1200

ragea1275

to dance antics1545

rig1570

to keep (also play) reaks1573

wanton1582

wantonize1592

frolic1593

wantonize1611

hoit1613

mird?c1625

to play about1638

freak1663

romp1665

rump1680

ramp1735

jinket1742

skylark1771

to cut up1775

rollick1786

hoity-toity1790

fun1802

lark1813

gammock1832

haze1848

marlock1863

train1877

horse1901

mollock1932

spadger1939

grab-ass1957

1680 M. Stevenson Wits Paraphras'd 92 Ah! can you rump it, With such a lewd Barbarian Strumpet?

1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker I. 4 I know that hussy, Mary Jones, loves to be rumping with the men.

1902 J. S. Farmer & W. E. Henley Slang VI. i. 78/1 Rump,..to copulate.

1937 E. Partridge Dict. Slang 715/2 Rump,..as v.i., of either sex.

b. transitive. British. To have sexual intercourse with; (sometimes) spec. to have anal sex with. Cf. rumpy-pumpy n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > engage in sexual activity with [verb (transitive)] > have sexual intercourse with

mingeOE

haveOE

knowc1175

ofliec1275

to lie with (or by)a1300

knowledgec1300

meetc1330

beliea1350

yknowc1350

touchc1384

deala1387

dightc1386

usea1387

takec1390

commona1400

to meet witha1400

servea1400

occupy?a1475

engender1483

jangle1488

to be busy with1525

to come in1530

visitc1540

niggle1567

mow1568

to mix one's thigh with1593

do1594

grind1598

pepper1600

yark1600

tumble1603

to taste of1607

compressc1611

jumble1611

mix?1614

consort?1615

tastea1616

bumfiddle1630

ingressa1631

sheet1637

carnal1643

night-work1654

bump1669

bumble1680

frig?c1680

fuck1707

stick1707

screw1719

soil1722

to do over1730

shag1770

hump1785

subagitatec1830

diddle1879

to give (someone) onec1882

charver1889

fuckeec1890

plugc1890

dick1892

to make a baby1911

to know (a person) in the biblical sense1912

jazz1920

rock1922

yentz1924

roll1926

to make love1927

shtupa1934

to give (or get) a tumble1934

shack1935

bang1937

to have it off1937

rump1937

tom1949

to hop into bed (with)1951

ball1955

to make it1957

plank1958

score1960

naughty1961

pull1965

pleasurea1967

to have away1968

to have off1968

dork1970

shaft1970

bonk1975

knob1984

boink1985

fand-

1937 E. Partridge Dict. Slang 715/2 Rump,..(of the male) to coït with, esp. dorsally:..from ca. 1850.

1993 G. F. Newman Law & Order (rev. ed.) 259 I told you where I was on Friday morning. I was in bed rumping my old lady, that's where.

1997 G. Oldman Nil by Mouth 91 How many times you seen this Peter Murray? What, are you fuckin' rumpin' 'im?

2007 Mirror (Nexis) 9 Jan. 35 When the judge isn't rumping defence barrister and on-off girlfriend Jo Mills he's like the Duracell Bunny wowing the ladies with his sporty stamina.

2. transitive. To flog, scourge, beat. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > administer corporal punishment [verb (transitive)] > beat

threshOE

beatc1000

to lay on?c1225

chastise1362

rapa1400

dressc1405

lack?c1475

paya1500

currya1529

coil1530

cuff1530

baste1533

thwack1533

lick1535

firka1566

trounce1568

fight1570

course1585

bumfeage1589

feague1589

lamback1589

lambskin1589

tickle1592

thrash1593

lam1595

bumfeagle1598

comb1600

fer1600

linge1600

taw1600

tew1600

thrum1604

feeze1612

verberate1614

fly-flap1620

tabor1624

lambaste1637

feak1652

flog1676

to tan (a person's) hide1679

slipper1682

liquora1689

curry-comb1708

whack1721

rump1735

screenge1787

whale1790

lather1797

tat1819

tease1819

larrup1823

warm1824

haze1825

to put (a person) through a course of sprouts1839

flake1841

swish1856

hide1875

triangle1879

to give (a person or thing) gyp1887

soak1892

to loosen (a person's) hide1902

1735 ‘R. Nab’ Addr. Batchelors Great-Brit. 50 The neighbours..ran in to compose matters;..Persuasions were quite lost; he rumped them most Teutonically.

1753 Election Mag. 35 Spread round the County this good piece of News, That the Rumpers were rump'd by the Dedington Blues.

1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. 202 Rump'd, flogged or scourged.

1859 Chambers's Jrnl. 5 Nov. 299/1 I'm thinkin' on the time when we was rumped togither at Miller's Point, and I bore it a deal better than you did, Sammy!

1951 R. B. Textor Failure in Japan 100 Until the police called a halt, hundreds of women were rumped by electrified canes.

1989 R. Spears NTC's Dict. Amer. Slang 315/2 They rumped him and made him run around the frat house.

†3. intransitive. Of a pigeon: to set up its tail feathers. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Columbiformes (pigeons, etc.) > [verb (intransitive)] > other actions (of pigeon)

tumble1698

rump1735

field1868

1735 [implied in: J. Moore Columbarium 36 Neither shou'd they set up the Feathers on their Rump when they play, which is call'd rumping. (at rumping n.)].

1765 Treat. Domest. Pigeons 106 It was apt to make them rump.

4. transitive. To turn one's back on (a person), esp. as a snub. Now rare (historical in later use).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > hold in contempt [verb (transitive)] > express contempt of > by gesture

finger-point1563

to bite the thumb at1573

fig1600

tweak1604

to make horns at1607

rump1737

to snap one's fingers at1806

to give (a person) the finger1874

scuff1897

1737 Common Sense I. 52 Whoever envies me, or whoever is not on my Side, let him be Rumped.

1790 S. Lennox Life & Lett. (1901) II. 76 Mr. Conolly was at Court in London, and H. M. rump'd him,..so that he did not go to the Queen's drawing-room.

1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas III. ix. ii. 384 Other people, who attempted to speak to him, were rumped in exact proportion with the blandishments of his face towards me.

1842 R. H. Barham Lay Old Woman in Ingoldsby Legends 2nd Ser. 265 His Holiness not only gets the ‘cold shoulder,’ But Nick rumps him completely.

a1880 J. R. Planché Songs & Poems (1881) 134 He made a sort of demi-volt And rumped his co-supporter.

1973 C. Chenevix Trench George II x. 176 Those whom he had ‘rumped’, that is to say on whom he had deliberately and rudely turned his back, formed themselves into a Rumpsteak Club.

1993 P. Thompson in K. Cameron Humour & Hist. 133 Walpole in his heyday had turned his back on them, ‘rumped’ them.

5. transitive. Originally Scottish. To plunder completely; (also) to cheat or clean (a person) out of money. Cf. rump n.¹ Phrases 2.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > robbery > spoliation or depredation > despoil or prey upon [verb (transitive)]

reaveOE

stripa1225

pill?c1225

robc1225

peela1250

despoil1297

raimc1300

spoilc1330

spoila1340

to pull a finch (also pigeon, plover, etc.)c1387

despoil1393

preya1400

spoila1400

spulyiea1400

unspoila1400

riflec1400

poll1490

to pill and poll1528

to poll and pill1528

exspoila1530

pilyie1539

devour?1542

plume1571

rive1572

bepill1574

fleece1575

to prey over1576

pread1577

disvaledge1598

despoliate1607

to make spoil of1613

expilate1624

to peel and poll1641

depredate1651

violatea1657

disvalise1672

to pick feathers off (a person)1677

to make stroy of1682

spoliate1699

pilfer1714

snabble1725

rump1815

vampire1832

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1815 W. Scott Let. 6 Sept. (1933) IV. 94 Most of the Châteaux where the Prussians are quarterd are what is technically called rump'd that is to say plunderd out and out.

1882 J. Walker Poems 293 Turkey, gash'd wi' clours and scaurs, And rumpit o' her bonnie lands By ursine Caesar's plund'ring hands.

1904 Eng. Dial. Dict. (at cited word) Ye've rumpit me the day, I havna ae saxpence left.

1999 J. Cameron Brown Bread Wengen ix. 111 They only fuckin' rumped me on the fuckin' change again.

2000 J. J. Connolly Layer Cake (2004) 227 Let me get this straight. Jimmy's been rumped for thirteen million quid by a loada East European grafters.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	rump
释义	rumpn.¹ Brit. /rʌmp/, U.S. /rəmp/ Forms: late Middle English rowmpe, late Middle English rumpp, late Middle English–1500s rompe, late Middle English–1600s rumpe, 1600s rompt, 1600s rumpt, 1600s– rump. Origin: Probably a borrowing from early Scandinavian. Etymology: Probably < early Scandinavian (compare Icelandic rumpur buttocks (17th cent.), Norwegian rumpe tail, buttocks, Old Danish rumpe, rompe tail, buttocks (Danish rumpe), Old Swedish rumpa, rompa, rumper tail (Swedish rumpa, (now regional) rump, romp tail, (now regional) buttocks), cognate with Middle Dutch romp, rompe, rump trunk, torso, kind of basket (Dutch romp trunk, torso), Middle Low German rump trunk, torso, kind of basket (German regional (Low German) rump), Middle High German (rare) rumph trunk, torso, kind of basket, large wooden bowl (German Rumpf trunk, torso), further etymology uncertain.It has been suggested (H.-J. Schüwer in Niederdeutsches Jahrbuch (1981) 104 88–106) that the original sense was ‘basket made of wickerwork’, and that on this assumption, the Germanic nouns could be < an ablaut variant of the Germanic base of Old English hrimpan (see rimple n.). However, although a sense ‘kind of basket or container (variously made of wickerwork, tree bark, or wood)’ is attested in Middle Dutch, Middle Low German, and Middle High German, this is neither the earliest nor the chief sense of the word in these languages. The suggested etymology would also require the assumption of an unattested sense ‘to weave’ for the Germanic simplex verbs cited at rimple n., as otherwise the semantic development is difficult to account for. The forms rompt, rumpt show an excrescent -t. Apparently attested earlier as a byname and surname: Thurstanus Rumpe (1087–98), Robertus Rumpe (c1170), Radulfus Rumpe (a1205). I. A part next to or forming a tail. 1. a. The part of an animal's body to which the tail is attached; the (upper) hindquarters; (in birds) the lower back.In early use perhaps also: a tail (see quot. 1440). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > rump and tail > [noun] > rump arseeOE croupc1300 crouponc1400 rumpc1425 rumplec1430 narsea1500 podex1601 poop1611 rump enda1658 breech1710 cushion1710 postabdomen1824 stern1830 bottle1935 dinger1943 ding1957 the world > animals > animal body > general parts > rump and tail > [noun] > tail taila800 starteOE mugglec1275 rumpc1425 caude1572 stern1575 fud1710 flag1859 pole1864 stern-ornament1885 c1425 Edward, Duke of York Master of Game (Vesp. B.xii) (1904) 12 (MED) An hare þat crompes hure tayle vpon hure rumpe [Fr. eschine] whan she sterteth out of here fourme, as a conyng, it is token she is stronge and wele rennyng. Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 439 Rumpe [Winch. Rump], tayle, cauda. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 263/2 Rompe of a beest, poiltron, crovpe. 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iv. f. 158 Theyr tayles dubled and flagging, theyr rumpes and thyes full of feathers. a1630 F. Moryson in Shakespeare's Europe (1903) ii. v. 214 They fasten them..to the tayles of theire horses, and to the Rompts when the tayles be puld off. 1681 E. R. Experienced Farrier (ed. 2) sig. Lll^v/2 If it get into the Joynt between the top of the Rump and the Tail, then it is known by a Scab, which you may feel with your Finger. 1754 M. Catesby Nat. Hist. Carolina II. 62 This [sc. a skunk] had a List of white, extending from the hind part of the Head, along the Ridge of the Back, to the Rump. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VI. 108 The marks of the goose are, a bigger body,..a white ring about the rump. 1830 J. Baxter Libr. Agric. & Hort. Knowl. 452 Sheep..high on the loins, down on the rumps. 1884 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds (ed. 2) 94 In general, we should call the anterior two-thirds or three-fourths of notæum ‘back’, and the rest ‘rump’. a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. xx. 536 Conspicuous white patches, as on the wheatear's rump, may help to distract the enemy's eye from more vulnerable parts. 1981 L. Alderson in K. Thear & A. Fraser Compl. Bk. Raising Livestock & Poultry v. 126/2 The crayon leaves a mark on the rump of the ewe to show that she has been mated. 2005 D. Cruickshank Around World in 80 Treasures 158 I noticed that most carriage horses have blankets tied over their rumps. b. A person's buttocks; the backside; (in extended use) the anus, the rectum. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > back > buttock(s) > [noun] flitcha700 arse-endseOE culec1220 buttockc1300 tail1303 toutec1305 nagea1325 fundamentc1325 tail-end1377 brawna1382 buma1387 bewschers?a1400 crouponc1400 rumplec1430 lendc1440 nachec1440 luddocka1475 rearwarda1475 croupc1475 rumpc1475 dock1508 hurdies1535 bunc1538 sitting place1545 bottom?c1550 prat1567 nates1581 backside1593 crupper1594 posteriorums1596 catastrophe1600 podex1601 posterior1605 seat1607 poop1611 stern1631 cheek1639 breeka1642 doup1653 bumkin1658 bumfiddle1661 assa1672 butt1675 quarter1678 foundation1681 toby1681 bung1691 rear1716 fud1722 moon1756 derrière1774 rass1790 stern-post1810 sit-down1812 hinderland1817 hinderling1817 nancy1819 ultimatum1823 behinda1830 duff?1837 botty1842 rear end1851 latter end1852 hinder?1857 sit1862 sit-me-down1866 stern-works1879 tuchus1886 jacksy-pardy1891 sit-upon1910 can1913 truck-end1913 sitzfleisch1916 B.T.M.1919 fanny1919 bot1922 heinie1922 beam1929 yas yas1929 keister1931 batty1935 bim1935 arse-end1937 twat1937 okole1938 bahookie1939 bohunkus1941 quoit1941 patoot1942 rusty-dusty1942 dinger1943 jacksie1943 zatch1950 ding1957 booty1959 patootie1959 buns1960 wazoo1961 tush1962 the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > intestines > [noun] > large intestine > rectum > anus fundamentc1325 tewelc1386 arseholea1400 hindwina1400 eyec1405 anus?a1425 nachec1440 bung-hole?a1560 siege1561 vent1587 touch-hole1602 nockhole1610 bumhole1611 dung gate1619 asshole1865 cornholec1920 okole1938 chuff1945 ring1949 ring-piece1949 buttholea1960 rump1959 brown eye1967 poephol1969 c1475 (c1450) P. Idley Instr. to his Son (Cambr.) (1935) ii. B. l. 44 (MED) Go firther, than, to the shap of hir clothis: They be cutted on the buttok even aboue the rompe. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. viii. sig. H4^v At her rompe she growing had behind A foxes taile. 1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida v. ii. 55 The diuell Luxury with his fat rumpe and potato finger. 1668 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. T. Bartholin Anat. (new ed.) iv. xv. 351 That Danish Boy, who had a Tail growing out at his Rump. 1740 W. Somervile Hobbinol i. 307 He on his Hams, or on his brawny Rump Sliding secure, derides their vain Distress. 1805 J. Adams Anal. Horsemanship (new ed.) II. 21 When galloping at full speed, you may find it necessary to thrust your rump out further behind..to support your horse. 1879 Harlequin Prince Cherrytop 28 I'll wager long odds He frequently sods Your plump little rump. 1932 T. E. Lawrence tr. Homer Odyssey (new ed.) xvii. 237 In passing he back-heeled Odysseus savagely in the rump, but nevertheless failed to jolt him off the path, so solidly he stood. 1959 J. Cheever Jrnls. (1991) 109 I go with Ben to the doctor and he slips his finger up his rump. 1992 G. Swift Ever After xiii. 167 He watched the denimed rump of one of the passing cyclists. c. The part of an animal's tail which is next to the body; the base or stump of the tail. Chiefly in rump of the tail. Also in extended use. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > rump and tail > [noun] > tail > part next to body rump1608 tail-head1704 1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 115 The length of it from the tip of the Nose to the rumpe of the taile, is 7. or 8. fingers. 1676 J. Moxon Regulæ Trium Ordinum 34 Q hath its Body made like O. The Rump of the Tail is made by drawing a straight line from Parallel 12½. 1745 P. Thomas True Jrnl. Voy. South-Seas 40 Two [fins]..with a small Rump of a Tail between them. 1771 T. James Hist. Herculean Straits I. i. vi. 93 The form of Spain is supposed to be like unto an ox's hide stretched out..; and the rump of the tail, the part I am treating of, upon the side of the Fretum Herculeum. 1829 W. Harley Harleian Dairy Syst. v. 111 A currycomb with a long handle was then applied to the rump of the tail, forehead, neck, &c. 1920 Dogdom Apr. 73/1 One of them breaks out with small pimples at the rump of the tail occasionally. 2. a. This part of an animal used as food; a piece or cut of meat from an animal's hindquarters. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > part or joint of animal > [noun] > rump butta1450 rump1469 buttock1593 tut1856 1469 in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (1790) 95 The hyndre shankes of the mutton with the rumpe. 1486 Bk. St. Albans sig. cviii (MED) She tytith vppon Rumppys; She fedith on all maner of flesch. 1567 G. Turberville Epitaphes, Epigrams f. 111 When my back is turnde and gon, Another giues thee rumpes to tyre vpon. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Cimier, the vpper part of a rumpe of Beefe, &c., next, or neere, vnto the chine. 1688 S. Penton Guardian's Instr. 52 Treated at an Ale-house with a Rump of Beef. 1710 J. Addison Tatler No. 148. ⁋1 The Maids of Honour in Queen Elizabeth's Time were allowed Three Rumps of Beef for their Breakfast. 1796 E. Burke Let. to Noble Lord in Wks. (1815) VIII. 63 The poor ox..is divided into rumps, and sirloins, and briskets, and into all sorts of pieces. 1830 M. Donovan Domest. Econ. II. iv. 237 I caused a rump of beef..to be immersed in..cold water, for three hours. 1883 J. Gilmour Among Mongols ix. 114 To present the rump and tail was the highest honour that a host could offer a guest at a feast. 1953 R. Howe & P. Espir Sultan's Pleasure Recipes 41 The meat..is cut, as always, from the rump into long strips and then wound round the spit. 1999 BBC Good Food July 77/4 Skirt is a tender, flavoursome cut. It is cheaper than sirloin or rump, but very lean. b. spec. Such a piece of meat burned or roasted symbolically on a bonfire to mark the final downfall of the Rump Parliament (see Rump Parliament n. at Compounds 2 and cf. sense 4b). Chiefly in to burn (also roast) the rump. Also in extended use. Now historical. ΚΠ 1660 S. Pepys Diary 11 Feb. (1970) I. 52 In King-streete, seven or eight [bonfires]; and all along burning and roasting and drinking for rumps. c1665 L. Hutchinson Mem. Col. Hutchinson (1973) 224 When the youths were gathering to make bonfires to burne the rump, as the custome of those mad dayes [sc. 1660] were. 1680 London Gaz. No. 1497/4 Several Apprentices..had formed a design..to come together in a considerable number on the Kings Birth-day, as they pretended, To Burn the Rump. 1754 Question Previous to Bill paying National Debt 11 It became at length more popular to burn the Rump than it had been to burn the Pope. 1823 I. D'Israeli Curiosities of Lit. 2nd Ser. III. 434 The rabble in town and country vied with each other in burning the ‘Rump’; and the literal emblem was hung by chains on gallowses, with a bonfire underneath, while the cries of ‘Let us burn the Rump! Let us roast the Rump’ were echoed every where. 1871 W. D. Christie Anthony Ashley Cooper II. xvii. 362 Thomas Alford, who had been apprehended as leader in a design of burning the Rump in the City on the King's birthday. 1924 C. W. Camp Artisan in Elizabethan Lit. iv. 140 In the fifth act [of John Tatham's The Rump (1660)] apprentices..enter with faggots on their shoulders and rumps of mutton on spits. ‘Roast the rump’ is their cry: they are about to make a public ceremony that represents the destruction of the Rump Parliament. 2007 J. Miller Cities Divided vii. 168 The Tories of Salisbury responded [to the Exclusion Crisis of 1681] by burning the pope..; at Shaftesbury they burned the Rump. 3. a. A part of something resembling a rump, esp. in shape or location. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > position at the back > [noun] > back part or rear > resembling something spec. talon1485 rump1630 1630 J. Taylor Wks. 112 Then shall a man depart our strands, Borne 'twixt the Rumps of two great Lands. 1729 A. Motte tr. I. Newton Math. Princ. Nat. Philos. II. iii. 359 The tail [of the comet] arose to 10° above the rump of the swan [i.e. the constellation Cygnus]. 1836 Bell's Syst. Geogr. (new ed.) IV. 635 This country [sc. Cambodia] is the southern extremity of that long neck of land which lies between the two gulfs of Siam and Tonquin, forming what might be termed the rump of the Chinese empire. 1852 G. P. Badger Nestorians I. 254 We left Amedia at 7 a.m., and..made the western rump of Jebel Gara about noon. 1926 E. Walrond Tropic Death 17 Black peons gathered on the rumps of breadfruit or cherry trees in abject supplication. 1972 G. M. Brown Greenvoe (1976) ii. 50 ‘Not one,’ said Bert Kerston, his cheeks like two rumps of beetroot. ‘Not one bloody lobster.’ 2003 G. Shteyngart Russ. Debutante's Handbk. viii. xxxv. 419 An empty dirtyard facing the rump of a low, gray municipal building. b. A contrivance worn beneath the skirt of a woman's dress in order to expand and support it behind, a bustle. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > underwear > [noun] > contrivance for expanding skirts > bustle, pads, or cushion bum roll1602 roll1602 Scotch bum1607 Scotch fall1607 rump roll1707 rump1710 bustle1786 bustler1787 cushion1806 dress improver1842 improver1844 bishopa1860 tournure1872 1710 E. Ward Nuptial Dialogues & Deb. II. x. 196 No, Lady, you shall first reduce your Pomp, Reform your Dress, and low'r your cockling Rump. 1778 Tailors i. ii. 6 Their proud dames..whose mantuas sweep the ground, With heads made up of wool, and rumps of cork. 1807 R. Southey Lett. from Eng. II. xlix. 335 There were protuberances on the hips called bustlers, another behind which was called in plain language a rump. 1870 M. Paine Inst. Med. (new ed.) 370 The deformities of the corset, or the artificial rump, elegances in polished society. 1985 S. Gilman Difference & Pathol. 259 The ‘bum rolls’ of the seventeenth century and the ‘cork rumps’ of the eighteenth century had already established a general association. 1991 S. Faludi Backlash ii. vii. 172 Christian Dior unveiled the ‘New Look’—actually an old late-Victorian look—featuring crinolined rumps, corseted waists, and long ballooning skirts. II. A remaining part. 4. a. A small, unimportant, or contemptible remnant or remainder of an (official) body of people, esp. a parliament (cf. sense 4b). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > that which is left or remainder > [noun] > the rest > of persons > a small remaining number of persons remnanta1382 remainder1567 rump1649 racemation1650 1649 C. Walker Anarchia Anglicana ii. 32 This fagge end, this Rump of a Parliament with corrupt Maggots in it. 1659 England's Confusion 22 This Rumpe of a casheered House of Commons. a1732 T. Boston Memoirs (1776) x. 297 The people running away into it..so that the rump of the meeting seemed only to remain. 1795 E. Burke Let. 22 May (1969) VIII. 251 My Business with the House of Lords is over for the present—for they have, or a Rump of them, have done their own Business pretty handsomely. 1818 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 33 8 What remains of it, is the Rump of the old Committee. 1848 Sc. Mag. Oct. 480 She [sc. Scotland] was left with but a ‘rump’ of very common-place intellects. 1877 W. Morris in J. W. Mackail Life W. Morris (1899) I. 349 The Tory Rump that we fools chose at the last election to represent us. 1965 G. Grant Lament for Nation ii.10 After Bennett's defeat in 1935, the Conservative party became a rump, with nearly all its strength in Ontario. 2004 Guardian 19 Apr. i. 15/3 Far from being a rump of Saddamist malcontents, the resistance enjoys broad based support. b. With the and capital initial. That part of the Long Parliament which remained after Pride's Purge of 1648 (see Pride's Purge n. at purge n. 3b), and which sat firstly from 1648 to 1653 when it was dissolved by Oliver Cromwell, and again from May 1659 to February 1660, when it was finally dissolved by General George Monck. Cf. Rump Parliament n. at Compounds 2. now historical. [For slightly earlier use of rump (with reference to formation of 1648 to 1653) see quot. 1649 at sense 4a. Compare also: 1662 A. Brome Rump (new ed.) To Rdr. sig. A3^v Now if you ask who nam'd it Rump, know 'twas so stil'd in an honest Sheet of Paper (call'd The Bloody Rump) written before the Tryal of our late Soveraign of Glorious Memory: but the Word obtain'd not universal notice till it flew from the mouth of Major General Brown at a Publick Assembly in the daies of Richard Cromwell. 1709 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1886) II. 329 Which word Rump had it's name first from Mr. Clem. Walker in his History of Independency printed in 1648 and was given to those..members that strenuously oppos'd the King. ] ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > governing or legislative body of a nation or community > English or British parliament > [noun] > a particular English or British parliament > specific great Parliamentc1450 Good Parliament1580 addle parliament1614 giunto1641 junto1641 Unlearned Parliament1643 Long Parliament1646 rump?1653 Short Parliament1653 lay Parliament1655 Barebone's Parliament1657 Rump Parliament1659 Little Parliamenta1675 Long Parliament1678 Pensioner Parliament1678 Pensioned Parliament1681 Bluestocking Parliamenta1683 Pension Parliament1682 Pensionary Parliament1690 marvellous Parliament?1706 rumple1725 lack-learning Parliament1765 unreported Parliament1839 Cavalier Parliament1849 Addled Parliament1857 merciless Parliament1875 wonderful Parliament1878 nominated Parliament1898 ?1653 (title) A catalogue of the lords, knights and gentlemen (of the Catholick religion) that were slain in the late warr, in defence of their King and countrey. As also of those whose estates were sold by the late Rump for that cause. 1659 C. Hatton Let. to Hyde 23 Dec. in MS Clarendon 68 It would be opportune if the City and Fleetwood join against the Rump. 1660 S. Pepys Diary 22 Feb. (1970) I. 64 Major-Generall Brown, who hath a long time been banished by the Rump. 1681 Arraignm.,Tryal & Condemnation S. Colledge 117 It was the Garbage of that Parliament I am sure, that is the Rump, but they called themselves the Parliament of England. 1725 B. Higgons Hist. & Crit. Remarks Burnet's Hist. 94 His Quarrel to Cromwell, was his having depos'd the Rump, and usurp'd the Power in a single Person. 1757 D. Hume Hist. Great Brit. II. iii. 97 It was agreed, that, laying aside former enmities, all efforts should be used for the overthrow of the Rump; For so they called the Parliament. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. i. 147 The Rump and the soldiers were still hostile to the House of Stuart. But the Rump was universally detested and despised. 1878 N. Amer. Rev. 126 538 This office he [sc. Milton] held during the Rump, under five successive councils of state. 1910 J. A. R. Marriott Second Chambers iii. 33 The judicial power of the House of Lords was held to be vested in the Rump. 1975 C. P. Korr Cromwell & New Model Foreign Policy viii. 102 These diplomats were looking at the Protectorate Council of State through eyes they had used during the Rump and the Barebones. 1991 Past & Present Aug. 50 The Rump's 1650 Act against Adulterers and Fornicators brought more sexual delinquencies before the justices. c. The rest or remainder of a thing; a remnant. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > that which is left or remainder > [noun] > the rest lave971 otherOE remanantc1350 remnanta1375 surplusc1400 remanent1414 reversionc1450 rest?1473 remain1483 allowance1521 reliquation1658 rump1708 balance1788 1708 Brit. Apollo 24–26 Nov. You [sc. the periodical The British Apollo] are..the Rump of the Athenian Oracle. 1878 J. Sands Out of World (ed. 2) ix. 122 (heading) What should be done with the rump of the Kelso Fund. 1899 Philos. Rev. 8 375 We reach the conclusion, ‘Some things are’, and we might even cut this down to ‘Things are’, which is just the rump of the original premises. 1942 Time 20 Apr. 22/1 On March 15, 1939, he [sc. Hitler] occupied the rump of Czecho-Slovakia. 2006 Times (Nexis) 5 Aug. (Features section) 5 The 20-odd Decimus Burton villas in the park are but the rump of the 200-odd originally planned. Phrases P1. rump and dozen n. now archaic (a) a rump of beef and a dozen bottles of claret, usually as a wager; (b) corporal punishment administered on the buttocks.Sense (b) apparently represents an isolated use. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > beef > [noun] > other cuts or parts tild1342 ox foota1398 oxtaila1425 neat's foot?c1450 beef-flick1462 sticking piece1469 ox-tonguea1475 aitch-bone1486 fore-crop?1523 sirloin1525 mouse-piece1530 ox-cheek1592 neat's tongue1600 clod1601 sticking place1601 skink1631 neck beef1640 round1660 ox-heart1677 runner1688 sticking draught1688 brisket-beef1697 griskin1699 sey1719 chuck1723 shin1736 gravy beef1747 baron of beef1755 prime rib1759 rump and dozen1778 mouse buttock1818 slifta1825 nine holes1825 spauld-piece1828 trembling-piece1833 shoulder-lyar1844 butt1845 plate1854 plate-rand1854 undercut1859 silver-side1861 bed1864 wing rib1883 roll1884 strip-loin1884 hind1892 topside1896 rib-eye1926 buttock meat1966 onglet1982 1778 Example ix. 61 ‘Come—I'll bet you a rump and dozen,’ said he, ‘I guess the questions you are going to ask!’ 1788 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (ed. 2) at Rump Rump and dozen, a rump of beef and a dozen of claret. 1812 Sporting Mag. 39 112 A bet of a rump and dozen was laid of this important point. 1833 J. Romilly Diary 20 Mar. in Cambridge Diary (1967) 31 The original bet was 1 G[ui]n[e]a, but Sedgwick proposed a rump & dozen. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xii. [Cyclops] 315 A rump and dozen, says the citizen, was what that old ruffian sir John Beresford called if [sic] but the modern God's Englishman calls it caning on the breech. 1944 L. De La Torre Dr. Sam (1946) 224 ‘A wager,’ he cried. ‘A rump and dozen that I'm returned for Westminster.’ P2. colloquial and regional. rump and stump [compare German (now rare) mit Rumpf und Stumpf (16th cent.), in the same sense] : through and through; completely, entirely (see also stump and rump at stump n.¹ 3i). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > completeness > completely [phrase] high and low1397 every (also ilk, ilka) stick?a1400 root and rind?a1400 hair and hide?c1450 stout and routc1450 bane and routc1480 overthwart and endlonga1500 (in) hide and hairc1575 right out1578 horse and footc1600 flesh and fella1616 root and branch1640 stab and stow1680 stoop and roop1728 stick, stock, stone dead1796 rump and stump1824 stump and rump1825 rump and rig1843 good and1885 1824 J. Mactaggart Sc. Gallovidian Encycl. 499 Up rump and stump did Auchen burn. 1887 S. Moore & E. Aveling tr. K. Marx Capital I. ii. vi. 146 The owner of the labour-power should sell it only for a definite period, for if he were to sell it rump and stump [Ger. in Bausch und Bogen], once for all, he would be selling himself. 1892 J. E. Muddock Detective's Triumphs 55 My man..bought the place. Bought it! Yes. Rump and stump. 1943 C. Richter Free Man vii. 71 It was dark as a sack down the chimney... He had got himself into it now, rump and stump, and nobody better light a fire below him. 2002 Northern Echo (Nexis) 14 Nov. 13 You know, cleaning the plate, rump and stump. †P3. English regional (Yorkshire). rump and rig: = rump and stump at Phrases 2. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > completeness > completely [phrase] high and low1397 every (also ilk, ilka) stick?a1400 root and rind?a1400 hair and hide?c1450 stout and routc1450 bane and routc1480 overthwart and endlonga1500 (in) hide and hairc1575 right out1578 horse and footc1600 flesh and fella1616 root and branch1640 stab and stow1680 stoop and roop1728 stick, stock, stone dead1796 rump and stump1824 stump and rump1825 rump and rig1843 good and1885 1843 J. Castillo Awd Isaac 20 They say they're Britons rump an' rig. Compounds C1. a. General attributive. (a) (In sense 1a.) rump feather n. ΚΠ 1738 E. Albin Nat. Hist. Birds II. 76 The Rump Feathers incumbent on the Tail are for the most part white, only spotted in the middle with brown. 2005 Auk 122 297 Some specimens lack the chrome orange edge in the rump feathers. rump gland n. ΚΠ 1833 Field Naturalist 1 75 (title) On the rump gland in birds. 1979 Amer. Zoologist 19 424/2 Pine voles possess specialized rump glands. rump patch n. ΚΠ 1857 S. F. Baird Gen. Rep. Zool.: Mammals (U.S. War Dept.: Rep. Explor. Route to Pacific) 640 The hairs in the whitish rump-patch are longer than elsewhere on the buttocks. 1948 A. L. Rand Mammals E. Rockies 206 Elk... Sides of body yellowish brown, rump patch lighter. (b) (In sense 2a.) rump beef n. ΚΠ 1689 Muses Farew. to Popery 18 A lazy Mass of damn'd Rump Beef. 1823 M. Holderness New Russia v. 55 We bought here 38 lbs. of rump beef at ten kopeeks. 2009 Mirror (Ulster ed.) (Nexis) 25 Apr. 39 16oz of rump beef in two burgers with bacon, cheese and tomato. rump roast n. ΚΠ 1890 New Pract. Housek. 643 The rump or upper part of hind leg, good for pot roasts; beef a la mode; corned beef and rump roasts. 1976 National Observer (U.S.) 22 May 20/4 Right in the Rump Roast. 2004 New Yorker 5 July 38/2 A rump roast was in the oven, seasoned with salt, pepper, and ginger. rump steak n. ΚΠ 1709 E. Ward Secret Hist. Clubs xxxii. 386 A Rump Steak, in which we glory, Was always Poyson to a Tory. 1760 O. Goldsmith in Brit. Mag. Oct. 577/2 Bad as it was it seemed a rump steak to me. 1886 C. E. Pascoe London of To-day (ed. 3) ii. 40 A mutton-chop or rump-steak may be readily got from the nearest butcher's. 2009 Evening Post (Bristol) (Nexis) 4 Nov. 6 There is a very good children's menu including a 6oz rump steak and scampi. (c) (In senses 4a and 4b.) rump caucus n. ΚΠ 1900 Railroad Telegrapher Sept. 760/1 No doubt 52 would have been able to secure a rump Caucus from among the members. 1933 Sun (Baltimore) 19 Apr. 1/7 The incipient revolt as reflected in the rump caucus of Democratic inflationists. 1996 D. W. Murray Democracy of Despots xi. 166 Those left defending the president's interests in parliament were reduced to a rump caucus. † rump-general n. Obsolete ΚΠ c1742 J. W. Full & Compl. Hist. Notorious Highwaymen 39 He got a rich Gold Watch, set with Diamonds, from the Lady Fairfax, the Rump General's Wife. 1826 W. E. Andrews Crit. & Hist. Rev. Fox's Bk. Martyrs II. 27 A rump-general, namely, John Lambert. † rump groat n. Obsolete ΚΠ 1731 Gentleman's Mag. 1 537 A Silver pair of Breeches neatly wrought, (Such as you see upon an old Rump Groat). rump junta n. ΚΠ 1935 Times 19 June 2/2 The Westminster Rump-juntas of our own day. 2001 E. Van Young Other Rebellion ii. 13 One of the triumvirate who controlled the rump junta of Zitácuaro. Rump man n. ΚΠ 1660 Hist. 2nd Death Rump 1/2 Some Packs he inveagles, O' th' blood-coated Beagles, To's partie; the Rump~men did so too. 1840 Pict. Hist. Eng. III. i. 431/2 The army men and the Rump men, came into fierce collision. 1951 E. Hahn A. Behn ii. 74 Monk treated him courteously and invited him with others of the old Rump men to join the new Parliament's discussions. rump meeting n. ΚΠ 1891 Latter-Day Saints' Millennial Star 26 Jan. 55 Finding themselves thwarted, the malcontents held a ‘rump’ meeting, and selected Mr. Jesse White as speaker. 1935 Sun (Baltimore) 10 Dec. 2/7 Mr. Berry..declared the meeting adjourned, and Dr. Haake and his confreres edged their way out to the sidewalk, where they threatened for a time to hold a ‘rump meeting’. 2002 R. J. Branham & S. J. Hartnett Sweet Freedom's Song i. 25 A rump meeting of loyalist ‘friends to order and government’ assembled at a private home. rump member n. ΚΠ 1685 A. Lovell tr. G. Bate Elenchus Motuum Nuperorum in Anglia ii. 162 The Rump-Members loaded with publick Hatred, and sad Hearts, departed home, as they were commanded. 1704 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion III. xvi. 566 They made no doubt but the Rump Members would again resume the Government. 1844 F. Lloyd Hampton Court I. 164 Several experiments..were cruelly played off with immense success upon the Rump member, his son, and guests. 1999 J. D. Spence Search for Mod. China (ed. 2) iv. xiv. 315 There was no longer any attempt to coordinate political decisions with the rump members of the old Parliament. rump party n. ΚΠ 1682 T. May Arbitrary Govt. Display'd 204 Lastly they consult about dissolving themselves, to which the Rump party, were very unwilling. 1771 E. Kimber & R. Johnson Wotton's Baronetage of Eng. II. xxliii. 407 He was slain at Manchester, by the rump party. 1959 Ann. Reg. 1958 121 Rump parties would continue to exist and split the anti-P.A.P. vote. 2009 Edmonton (Alberta) Jrnl. (Nexis) 10 Oct. b1 The Wildrose Alliance, once a joke of a rural rump party, trounced the Tories. rump senate n. ΚΠ 1709 R. Gould Wks. I. 313 Why shou'd our Royal Martyr lose his Head And a Rump Senate Govern in his Stead? 1861 J. E. B. Mayor Introd. Cicero, Philipp. ii. (1881) p. xvii The rump senate, thus brought together, was convened by Antonius and Cassius. 2000 N.Y. Post (Nexis) 23 Nov. 4 If there's only a rump Senate, can it even count electoral votes as the Constitution requires? rump-state n. ΚΠ 1893 Amer. Nonconformist 23 Mar. 4/3 Certainly the people will object to supporting them any longer if no other duty can be found for them than suppressing rump state governments. 1923 M. H. H. Macartney Five Years European Chaos iv. 80 Death, damnation, and destruction..have driven the disunited rump States of Austria and Hungary to depend upon the charity of their former enemies. 2000 Wall St. Jrnl. 15 June b17/3 A mandatory-retirement proposal to force Mr. Panic, the former prime minister of the rump-state of Yugoslavia, and several other directors to step down. † Rump-time n. Obsolete ΚΠ 1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words at Candlemass It sutes with Colonel Barksteads wisdom, who in the Rump time committed a Papist for being at an Evening Mass..at an Ambassadors House in Longacre. 1716 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1901) V. 296 Of whose being sequestred in the Rump-Time I have heard much. b. Instrumental. rump-fed adj. ΚΠ a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) i. iii. 5 Aroynt thee, Witch, the rumpe-fed Ronyon cryes. View more context for this quotation 1899 Contemp. Rev. Dec. 776 The Conservative Working Man exchanges his birthright of freedom and free thought for a pat on the head from any little rump-fed lord that steps his way. 2006 National Post (Canada) (Nexis) 23 Oct. a13 Canadians deserve good government rather than the all too frequent braying of fawning rump-fed clotpoles looking for headlines. c. Locative. † rumpgalled adj. Obsolete rare ΚΠ 1631 B. Jonson Bartholmew Fayre ii. ii. 18 in Wks. II You'll neuer thinke of any thing, till your dame be rumpgall'd. rump-spotted adj. ΚΠ 1897 H. O. Forbes Hand-bk. Primates II. 72 The Rump-spotted Guenon. Cercopithecus opisthostictus. 1994 W. W. Johnstone Dreams of Eagles (2004) xii. 110 For this trip, Jamie would ride..a big rump-spotted stallion the Nez Perce called ‘appaloosa’. C2. † rump-and-kidney man n. Obsolete rare a fiddler who plays at local events and dines on leftover food. ΚΠ 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Rump-and-Kidney Men, Fidlers that Play at Feasts, Fairs,..&c. And Live chiefly on the Remnants of Victuals. rump band n. a leather band passing over the rump of a horse to support the trace-chains. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > straps lorainc1290 lingel1460 breeching1515 breastplate1578 martingale1584 rudstay1688 running martingale1747 breastband1783 breast collar1789 rump band1844 check-strap1857 kicking-strap1861 point1875 strapping1882 1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm III. 1192 The rump-band is hooked on to the trace-chains. 1998 Jrnl. Range Managem. 51 545/2 The faecal bag is made from tough, durable plastic and attaches to the rump band. rump end n. = senses 1, 2a; also in extended use. ΚΠ a1658 J. Cleveland Answer Pamphlet in Wks. (1687) 105 A most acute Apothegm..and such on one as may well beseem the Rump-end of Licosthenes at the next Impression. 1765 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy VII. xxi. 71 The gardener..led out the two old mules to clip the hair from the rump-ends of their tails. 1860 R. F. Williams Domest. Mem. II. v. 134 The yeomen..shared the sticking-place, the flanks, and the rump end of beef. 1943 E. Pound in E. Mullins This Difficult Individual (1961) x. 232 The territory already crushed and defiled by..the rump end of the mercantile system. 2008 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 17 May 22 There now appears the rump end of a digging wombat, claws showing on his disappearing hind legs. † rump-evil n. Obsolete rare a disease affecting the rump of birds, perhaps inflammation of the oil gland. ΚΠ 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Mal de cropion, the rumpe-euill; a disease wherewith all birds..are sometimes troubled. rump government n. a small remaining part of a government; (also) an unofficial government. ΚΠ 1685 in A. Lovell tr. T. Skinner Hist. Affairs Eng. Table sig. H^v, in tr. G. Bate Elenchus Motuum Nuperorum in Anglia* Rump-Government, 5. & inf. Rump and Army at variance, 10. 1861 Richmond (Va.) Examiner 4 Dec. 3/3 It may very reasonably be doubted how far General Sherman or his officers would suffer schemes so vitally important to the Rump Government to leak out through the indiscretions of loquacious volunteers. 1937 Nation 6 Nov. 419/1 The Franco rump government in Spain. 1993 Soldier of Fortune Feb. 17/2 Serb-controlled Yugoslavian rump government threatens to send Yugoslav army into Bosnia-Herzegovina. † rump jewel n. Obsolete a jewel worn on a decorative or peripheral part of a garment; (also) the last jewel in a collection. ΚΠ 1691 T. Shadwell Scowrers ii. i. 15 That must be my sweet Ducklin—I know her by her pretty waddle in her Gate—besides I have had a sight of her Rump Jewel. 1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 245. ⁋2 A Crochet of 122 Diamonds,..with a Rump Jewel after the same Fashion. 1772 P. Stockdale Life E. Waller p. xlix His principal fund..was his wife's jewels;..he jocularly told his friends that he was come to the rump-jewel. 1882 J. Ashton Social Life Reign of Queen Anne I. xiv. 165 (note) The extremely bouffée furbelows were called rumpt furbelows, and the brooches inserted in the centre were called rump jewels or rumphlets. Rump Parliament n. the remaining part of the Long Parliament, esp. in its second formation of 1659–60 (see sense 4b) (now historical); (later also in extended use, frequently without capital initials) any parliamentary body resembling this. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > governing or legislative body of a nation or community > English or British parliament > [noun] > a particular English or British parliament > specific great Parliamentc1450 Good Parliament1580 addle parliament1614 giunto1641 junto1641 Unlearned Parliament1643 Long Parliament1646 rump?1653 Short Parliament1653 lay Parliament1655 Barebone's Parliament1657 Rump Parliament1659 Little Parliamenta1675 Long Parliament1678 Pensioner Parliament1678 Pensioned Parliament1681 Bluestocking Parliamenta1683 Pension Parliament1682 Pensionary Parliament1690 marvellous Parliament?1706 rumple1725 lack-learning Parliament1765 unreported Parliament1839 Cavalier Parliament1849 Addled Parliament1857 merciless Parliament1875 wonderful Parliament1878 nominated Parliament1898 1659 A. Brome (title) Ratts Rhimed to Death. Or, the Rump-Parliament Hang'd up in the shambles. 1725 B. Higgons Hist. & Crit. Remarks Burnet's Hist. 100 His [sc. Monk's] Address..in perswading the Rump Parliament to dislodge the disaffected Troops at London. 1797 F. M. Eden State of Poor I. i. ii. 173 The repeated complaints and convincing statements..induced the Rump Parliament..to pass the celebrated Navigation Act. 1838 New Yorker 17 Feb. 764/1 What prevents Congress from declaring itself perpetual—a rump Parliament? 1845 T. Carlyle in O. Cromwell Lett. & Speeches II. 181 Such was the destructive wrath of my Lord General Cromwell against the Nominal Rump Parliament of England. 1908 H. C. Shelley Untrodden Eng. Ways iv. 64 When the Rump Parliament demanded his [sc. Richard Cromwell's] resignation his essential weakness of character was revealed in his quiet acceptance. 1976 New Yorker 22 Mar. 98/2 Krishnan Kant recently made an..indictment..in what could properly be called the rump Parliament, inasmuch as so many of both its opposition and its Congress members have been jailed. 2004 New Yorker 17 May 71/1 Iraqis from all sectors of society gathering..to choose an advisory body, or rump parliament. † rump-poke n. Obsolete rare a skua (genus Stercorarius). ΚΠ 1821 A. Welby Visit N. Amer. 8 We also saw yesterday a large brown bird pursuing a Gull, and understood its name to be Rump-poke. An appropriate appellation, as it pursues other birds for their droppings. rump-post n. Ornithology the pygostyle of a bird; the ploughshare bone. ΚΠ 1890 E. Coues Handbk. Field & Gen. Ornithol. ii. iv. 210 That extraordinary affair called the rump-post or pygostyle. 2000 E. B. Banning Archaeologist's Lab. x. 192/1 There are often..up to ten fused elements that form an upturned rump-post, or pygostyle, for moving the bird's tail feathers. rump roll n. rare (now historical) a type of bustle (cf. sense 3b). ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > underwear > [noun] > contrivance for expanding skirts > bustle, pads, or cushion bum roll1602 roll1602 Scotch bum1607 Scotch fall1607 rump roll1707 rump1710 bustle1786 bustler1787 cushion1806 dress improver1842 improver1844 bishopa1860 tournure1872 1707 J. Stevens tr. F. de Quevedo Comical Wks. 450 A vast Fardel of Rags..compos'd a Rump-rowl. 2007 K. V. W. Keller Dance & Music in Amer. vi. 607 Fig. 129 No hoops here! In this satire by Matthew Darly (London: 1776), the ladies use only small panniers or rump rolls to support their dresses. rump rope n. a rope used to secure an animal round the rump. ΚΠ 1820 W. Scoresby Acct. Arctic Regions II. 296 The rump then, supported by a tackle, is drawn forward by means of a stout rope, called the rump-rope. 1992 Rangelands 14 7/1 Once the horse was on the ground, the crew removed the sling and put on..a rump rope to aid in loading. rumpspringing n. (in a garment) the fact of becoming baggy in the seat. ΚΠ 1954 Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. xxi. 35 Rumpspringing: pres. part., n., of a skirt, the act of bagging in the seat, caused by sitting. An inner lining is sometimes used to prevent rumpspringing... Rumpsprung: adj. 1970 Oneonta (N.Y.) Daily Star 18 Dec. 9/8 To avoid rumpspringing in double knits, a slip lining or an underlining may be used in the skirt back. rumpsprung adj. (of a chair, etc.) sprung in the seat; (of a garment) that has become baggy in the seat; also in extended use. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > support > hanging or suspension > [adjective] > hanging down > specifically in the seat rumpsprung1939 the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > back > buttock(s) > [adjective] > types of pin-buttocked1566 strong-dockeda1652 swag-buttockeda1652 callipygian1818 pin-tailed1825 fat-arsed1891 callipygous1923 rumpsprung1939 steatopygial1978 1939 C. Morley Kitty Foyle xiii. 131 Pop creaking in his rumpsprung wicker chair. 1962 San Antonio (Texas) Light 3 June (Weekly section) 8/3 Rumpsprung gabardine skirts with nondescript paisley blouses do not guarantee failure. 1975 Weekend Mag. (Montreal) 31 May 9/1 In the hallway, his rumpsprung wife is making a blasé remark about the new labor code. 2003 Daily Herald (Chicago) 15 Aug. vi. 49/1 I'm the MotoGP world champion... And I did it all without leaving my rump-sprung recliner. rump strap n. = rump band n. ΚΠ 1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm III. 1192 The trace-horse is harnessed with back-strap, rump-strap, and crupper. 2000 Jrnl. Zoo & Wildlife Med. 31 121/1 The rump strap was adjusted to support the tuber ischii and caudal thigh muscles. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2022). † rumpn.² Forms: 1500s rompe, 1600s rump, 1600s rumpe. Origin: Either (i) a borrowing from Dutch. Or (ii) a borrowing from Middle Low German. Etymons: Dutch romp; Middle Low German rumpe. Etymology: Either < Dutch †romp, †rompe refuse of nutmegs, nutmeg of inferior quality, pieces of cloves and nutmeg (late 16th cent. in Kiliaan), or < Middle Low German rumpe refuse of nutmegs collectively, further etymology uncertain; perhaps both extended uses of Dutch romp and Middle Low German rumpe rump n.¹ Obsolete. rare. A nutmeg of inferior quality; (in plural) refuse of nutmegs. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > additive > spice > [noun] > nutmeg or mace > refuse of rump1592 1592 Profitable Disc. Spice 4 The third and last sort we terme Rompes, so termed being wrinkled, brused, ill coloured, and do want their oile. 1602 in W. Foster Lett. received by E. India Co. (1893) 41 To clense them & free them..from dust & the nutmegges from Rumps. 1604 Rates Marchandizes sig. F4^v Nutmegs broken voc. Rumpes the pound xvi.d. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2020). rumpv. Brit. /rʌmp/, U.S. /rəmp/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Perhaps also partly a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymons: rump n.¹; romp v. Etymology: < rump n.¹ In sense 1 perhaps originally an alteration of romp v. by association with rump n.¹ Chiefly slang. 1. a. intransitive, and transitive with it. To have sexual intercourse, to engage in sexual activity. Cf. romp v. 1. rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > frolicking or romping > frolic [verb (intransitive)] floxec1200 ragea1275 to dance antics1545 rig1570 to keep (also play) reaks1573 wanton1582 wantonize1592 frolic1593 wantonize1611 hoit1613 mird?c1625 to play about1638 freak1663 romp1665 rump1680 ramp1735 jinket1742 skylark1771 to cut up1775 rollick1786 hoity-toity1790 fun1802 lark1813 gammock1832 haze1848 marlock1863 train1877 horse1901 mollock1932 spadger1939 grab-ass1957 1680 M. Stevenson Wits Paraphras'd 92 Ah! can you rump it, With such a lewd Barbarian Strumpet? 1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker I. 4 I know that hussy, Mary Jones, loves to be rumping with the men. 1902 J. S. Farmer & W. E. Henley Slang VI. i. 78/1 Rump,..to copulate. 1937 E. Partridge Dict. Slang 715/2 Rump,..as v.i., of either sex. b. transitive. British. To have sexual intercourse with; (sometimes) spec. to have anal sex with. Cf. rumpy-pumpy n. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > engage in sexual activity with [verb (transitive)] > have sexual intercourse with mingeOE haveOE knowc1175 ofliec1275 to lie with (or by)a1300 knowledgec1300 meetc1330 beliea1350 yknowc1350 touchc1384 deala1387 dightc1386 usea1387 takec1390 commona1400 to meet witha1400 servea1400 occupy?a1475 engender1483 jangle1488 to be busy with1525 to come in1530 visitc1540 niggle1567 mow1568 to mix one's thigh with1593 do1594 grind1598 pepper1600 yark1600 tumble1603 to taste of1607 compressc1611 jumble1611 mix?1614 consort?1615 tastea1616 bumfiddle1630 ingressa1631 sheet1637 carnal1643 night-work1654 bump1669 bumble1680 frig?c1680 fuck1707 stick1707 screw1719 soil1722 to do over1730 shag1770 hump1785 subagitatec1830 diddle1879 to give (someone) onec1882 charver1889 fuckeec1890 plugc1890 dick1892 to make a baby1911 to know (a person) in the biblical sense1912 jazz1920 rock1922 yentz1924 roll1926 to make love1927 shtupa1934 to give (or get) a tumble1934 shack1935 bang1937 to have it off1937 rump1937 tom1949 to hop into bed (with)1951 ball1955 to make it1957 plank1958 score1960 naughty1961 pull1965 pleasurea1967 to have away1968 to have off1968 dork1970 shaft1970 bonk1975 knob1984 boink1985 fand- 1937 E. Partridge Dict. Slang 715/2 Rump,..(of the male) to coït with, esp. dorsally:..from ca. 1850. 1993 G. F. Newman Law & Order (rev. ed.) 259 I told you where I was on Friday morning. I was in bed rumping my old lady, that's where. 1997 G. Oldman Nil by Mouth 91 How many times you seen this Peter Murray? What, are you fuckin' rumpin' 'im? 2007 Mirror (Nexis) 9 Jan. 35 When the judge isn't rumping defence barrister and on-off girlfriend Jo Mills he's like the Duracell Bunny wowing the ladies with his sporty stamina. 2. transitive. To flog, scourge, beat. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > administer corporal punishment [verb (transitive)] > beat threshOE beatc1000 to lay on?c1225 chastise1362 rapa1400 dressc1405 lack?c1475 paya1500 currya1529 coil1530 cuff1530 baste1533 thwack1533 lick1535 firka1566 trounce1568 fight1570 course1585 bumfeage1589 feague1589 lamback1589 lambskin1589 tickle1592 thrash1593 lam1595 bumfeagle1598 comb1600 fer1600 linge1600 taw1600 tew1600 thrum1604 feeze1612 verberate1614 fly-flap1620 tabor1624 lambaste1637 feak1652 flog1676 to tan (a person's) hide1679 slipper1682 liquora1689 curry-comb1708 whack1721 rump1735 screenge1787 whale1790 lather1797 tat1819 tease1819 larrup1823 warm1824 haze1825 to put (a person) through a course of sprouts1839 flake1841 swish1856 hide1875 triangle1879 to give (a person or thing) gyp1887 soak1892 to loosen (a person's) hide1902 1735 ‘R. Nab’ Addr. Batchelors Great-Brit. 50 The neighbours..ran in to compose matters;..Persuasions were quite lost; he rumped them most Teutonically. 1753 Election Mag. 35 Spread round the County this good piece of News, That the Rumpers were rump'd by the Dedington Blues. 1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. 202 Rump'd, flogged or scourged. 1859 Chambers's Jrnl. 5 Nov. 299/1 I'm thinkin' on the time when we was rumped togither at Miller's Point, and I bore it a deal better than you did, Sammy! 1951 R. B. Textor Failure in Japan 100 Until the police called a halt, hundreds of women were rumped by electrified canes. 1989 R. Spears NTC's Dict. Amer. Slang 315/2 They rumped him and made him run around the frat house. †3. intransitive. Of a pigeon: to set up its tail feathers. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Columbiformes (pigeons, etc.) > [verb (intransitive)] > other actions (of pigeon) tumble1698 rump1735 field1868 1735 [implied in: J. Moore Columbarium 36 Neither shou'd they set up the Feathers on their Rump when they play, which is call'd rumping. (at rumping n.)]. 1765 Treat. Domest. Pigeons 106 It was apt to make them rump. 4. transitive. To turn one's back on (a person), esp. as a snub. Now rare (historical in later use). ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > hold in contempt [verb (transitive)] > express contempt of > by gesture finger-point1563 to bite the thumb at1573 fig1600 tweak1604 to make horns at1607 rump1737 to snap one's fingers at1806 to give (a person) the finger1874 scuff1897 1737 Common Sense I. 52 Whoever envies me, or whoever is not on my Side, let him be Rumped. 1790 S. Lennox Life & Lett. (1901) II. 76 Mr. Conolly was at Court in London, and H. M. rump'd him,..so that he did not go to the Queen's drawing-room. 1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas III. ix. ii. 384 Other people, who attempted to speak to him, were rumped in exact proportion with the blandishments of his face towards me. 1842 R. H. Barham Lay Old Woman in Ingoldsby Legends 2nd Ser. 265 His Holiness not only gets the ‘cold shoulder,’ But Nick rumps him completely. a1880 J. R. Planché Songs & Poems (1881) 134 He made a sort of demi-volt And rumped his co-supporter. 1973 C. Chenevix Trench George II x. 176 Those whom he had ‘rumped’, that is to say on whom he had deliberately and rudely turned his back, formed themselves into a Rumpsteak Club. 1993 P. Thompson in K. Cameron Humour & Hist. 133 Walpole in his heyday had turned his back on them, ‘rumped’ them. 5. transitive. Originally Scottish. To plunder completely; (also) to cheat or clean (a person) out of money. Cf. rump n.¹ Phrases 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > robbery > spoliation or depredation > despoil or prey upon [verb (transitive)] reaveOE stripa1225 pill?c1225 robc1225 peela1250 despoil1297 raimc1300 spoilc1330 spoila1340 to pull a finch (also pigeon, plover, etc.)c1387 despoil1393 preya1400 spoila1400 spulyiea1400 unspoila1400 riflec1400 poll1490 to pill and poll1528 to poll and pill1528 exspoila1530 pilyie1539 devour?1542 plume1571 rive1572 bepill1574 fleece1575 to prey over1576 pread1577 disvaledge1598 despoliate1607 to make spoil of1613 expilate1624 to peel and poll1641 depredate1651 violatea1657 disvalise1672 to pick feathers off (a person)1677 to make stroy of1682 spoliate1699 pilfer1714 snabble1725 rump1815 vampire1832 sweat1847 ploat1855 vampirize1888 1815 W. Scott Let. 6 Sept. (1933) IV. 94 Most of the Châteaux where the Prussians are quarterd are what is technically called rump'd that is to say plunderd out and out. 1882 J. Walker Poems 293 Turkey, gash'd wi' clours and scaurs, And rumpit o' her bonnie lands By ursine Caesar's plund'ring hands. 1904 Eng. Dial. Dict. (at cited word) Ye've rumpit me the day, I havna ae saxpence left. 1999 J. Cameron Brown Bread Wengen ix. 111 They only fuckin' rumped me on the fuckin' change again. 2000 J. J. Connolly Layer Cake (2004) 227 Let me get this straight. Jimmy's been rumped for thirteen million quid by a loada East European grafters. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹c1425n.²1592v.1680
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