Word: rump Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English rumpe, from Old Norse rumpr (“rump”), from Middle Low German rump (“the bulk or trunk of a body, trunk of a tree”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *rumpō (“trunk of a tree, log”). The ultimate origin could be related to Proto-Germanic *hrimpaną (“to wrinkle”) (Dutch rimpel and German rümpfen (“to wrinkle”)); outside of Germanic, compare Ancient Greek ῥάμφος (rhámphos, “crooked beak”). Cognate with Icelandic rumpur (“rump”), Swedish rumpa (“rump”), Dutch romp (“trunk, body, hull”), German Rumpf (“hull, trunk, torso, trunk”). In the sense of remnant, first attested in the Rump Parliament of 1648; its original meaning here was a reference to the rotten, unclean hindquarters of an animal, gradually morphing to refer to the "remnant" aspect of the Parliament rather than its perceived unsavory nature. Pronunciation: /ˈɹʌmp/, /ˈɹɐmp/, /ˈɾʌmp/, /ˈɹʊmp/ 1. To turn one's back on, to show one's (clothed) backside to, as a sign of disrespect. Labels: transitive Example: And when they succeeded in forcing themselves back upon the King, who loathed them, and had rumped them, they put the Great Seal into Commission, and omitted Lord Brougham's name in the list of the Cabinet. Example: Soon afterwards, meeting the lecturer, whom he had been previously in the habit of greeting with great courtesy, the Duke looked him fairly down, and then rumped him without mercy. 2. To fuck. (Compare bum (verb).) Labels: slang, vulgar Example: Rodrigo had also set eyes on a woman at court but I doubt he was rumping her in the hay, like I was with Maria. In Rodrigo's case, it was more a sort of teenager fascination of the unobtainable. Example: In fact I have to stop thinking about it. Because that would mean all those times I was rumping her she was only pretending. Not just faking orgasms like they can, but pretending through and through and that's a thought can make me a bit dizzy. 3. To cheat. Labels: UK, slang Example: Seems this Stevie had a score to settle with some guy that had rumped him over a bundle of traveller's cheques and he thought by telling me this guy was the one that shot me I'd find him and kill him stone dead; […] Example: They'd been rumped out of half a kilo of charlie by a toeraf of a crack-head called Mad Mickey D from Bermondsey. And after he rumped them he was going round telling everybody that the Arifs were total fucking mugs. So they called him out for a drink one night, palled him up and then proceeded to get him paralytic. 4. To ramble; to move (or talk) aimlessly. Example: […] Mr. Turner. Mr. Speaker, the gentleman from Allegheny has been rumping around for several minutes and I think I ought to have a chance to rump a little bit. Example: SEIGISMUNDO If she hadn't gone rumping around the world. Rubbing up on this and that man for her sport. PRIVIE She only rubbed on one man. SEIGISMUNDO That was one too many. 5. To move (someone or something) around. Example: Barney rumped him out to the step, but the kid hung onto the door. Wind roared into the cab. Cold. Slicing up Barney's trouser's legs, pressing his shirt. The rig's heavy treads machinegunned the pavement. Example: So he held Jody and she drank half and then he rumped her up on his shoulder and patted her, the way his mom did.