rumble

Meanings

Noun

• A low, heavy, continuous sound, such as that of thunder or a hungry stomach.
• A street fight or brawl.
• A rotating cask or box in which small articles are smoothed or polished by friction against each other.
• A seat for servants, behind the body of a carriage.

Verb

• To make a low, heavy, continuous sound.
• To discover deceitful or underhanded behaviour.
• To move while making a rumbling noise.
• To fight; to brawl.
• to provide haptic feedback by vibrating.
• To cause to pass through a rumble, or polishing machine.
• To murmur; to ripple.

Interjection

• An onomatopoeia describing a rumbling noise

Origin

• From Middle English rumblen, romblen, rummelyn, frequentative form of romen, equivalent to rome + -le. Cognate with Dutch rommelen ("to rumble"), Low German rummeln ("to rumble"), German rumpeln ("to be noisy"), Danish rumle ("to rumble"), all of imitative origin.