rump

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”). 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.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹʌmp/
• Rhymes: -ʌmp

rump (plural rumps)

1. The hindquarters of an animal
2. A cut of meat from the rump of an animal.
3. The buttocks.
4. Remnant, as in Rump Parliament.

• (hindquarters of an animal): croupe, crupper
• (cut of meat from the hindquarters of an animal): round
• see Thesaurus:buttocks

• Rump Parliament
• rump state

• MURP

From Old Norse rumpr (“rump”), from Middle Low German rump (“the bulk or trunk of a body, trunk of a tree”), from Proto-Germanic *rumpō (“trunk of a tree, log”).

• IPA^(key): [rʌmp]

rump (plural rumps)

1. (anatomy) rump
2. a topside beef cut

• rump an stump (“completely, wholly, in its entirety”)
• rumple (“rump, tail, haunches, buttocks, seat”)

rump (third-person singular present rumps, present participle rumpin, past rumpit, past participle rumpit)

1. to plunder, clean out of money
2. (colloquial, humorous) Sexual intercourse.

• rumpy-pumpy, rumpie-pumpie