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What (who) is Rumple - definition
rumple
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¦ verb [usu. as adjective rumpled] give a ruffled or dishevelled appearance to.
¦ noun an untidy state.
Derivatives
rumply adjective
Origin
C16 (in the sense 'wrinkle'): from MDu. rompel.
rumple
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(rumples, rumpling, rumpled)
If you rumple someone's hair, you move your hand backwards and forwards through it as your way of showing affection to them.
I leaned forward to rumple his hair, but he jerked out of the way.
= ruffle
VERB: V n
Examples of use of Rumple
1. Those on the newest bicycles of all appear to be suffering qualms; an anxious–looking businessman in neatly pressed clothes, sighted on Monday morning in Islington worrying about whether to fold his jacket over his arm, or if the reflector band he‘s pinning to his chest will rumple his shirt; a mother wobbling down New North Road with three children of decreasing sizes, the smallest with stabilising wheels on the sides of his tiny bike, like a mummy duck with her ducklings heading off to school on the fringes of the City.