rumple

Etymology

Compare German rumpeln (“to din, to make the welkin ring”) and Dutch rommelen (“to rumble”)

Verb

rumple (third-person singular simple present rumples, present participle rumpling, simple past and past participle rumpled)

1. To make wrinkled, particularly of fabric.

   I'll rumple my bedsheets so it looks like I was here last night.

   • Burke

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

2. To muss.
3. To tousle.

Anagrams

• Lumper, Plumer, lumper, replum

Etymology

rump (“rump”) +‎ -le

Noun

rumple (plural rumples)

1. diminutive of rump
2. (anatomy) rump, tail, haunches, buttocks, seat