rump

Meanings

Noun

• The hindquarters of a four-legged mammal, not including its legs
• A cut of meat from the rump of an animal.
• The buttocks.
• Remnant, as in Rump Parliament.

Verb

• To turn one's back on, to show one's (clothed) backside to, as a sign of disrespect.
• To cheat.
• To ramble; to move (or talk) aimlessly.
• To move (someone or something) around.

Related

Similar words

• croupe, crupper
• round

Origin

• 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 (Dutch rimpel and German rümpfen); outside of Germanic, compare Ancient Greek ῥάμφος.
• 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.