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rum⋅ple

[ruhm-puhl] verb, -pled, -pling, noun
–verb (used with object)
1. to crumple or crush into wrinkles: to rumple a sheet of paper.
2. to ruffle; tousle (sometimes fol. by up): The wind rumpled her hair.
–verb (used without object)
3. to become wrinkled or crumpled: Tissue rumples easily.
–noun
4. a wrinkle or irregular fold; crease.

Origin:
1595–1605; < D rompelen (v.), rompel (n.)


1. wrinkle, crease, muss.
rum·ple   (rŭm'pəl)   
v.   rum·pled, rum·pling, rum·ples

v.   tr.
To wrinkle or form into folds or creases.
v.   intr.
To become wrinkled or creased.
n.  An irregular or untidy crease.

[Perhaps Dutch rompelen, from Middle Dutch rumpelen.]
rum'ply adj.

Rumple

Rum"ple\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Rumpled p. pr. & vb. n. Rumpling.] [Cf. rimple, and D. rimpelen to wrinkle, rompelig rough, uneven, G. r["u]mpfen to wrinkle, MHG. r["u]mphen, OHG. rimpfan, Gr. "ra`mfos the crooked beak of birds of prey, ? to roam.] To make uneven; to form into irregular inequalities; to wrinkle; to crumple; as, to rumple an apron or a cravat.

They would not give a dog's ear of their most rumpled and ragged Scotch paper for twenty of your fairest assignats. --Burke.

Rumple

Rum"ple\, n. A fold or plait; a wrinkle. --Dryden.

rumple  (v.)
1603, possibly a variant of rimple "to wrinkle" (14c.), from O.E. hrympel; possibly influenced by M.Du. rumpelen.
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