rumple

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

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

1. (transitive) To make wrinkled, particularly 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. (transitive) To muss; to tousle.

rumple (plural rumples)

1. A wrinkle.

• Lumper, Plumer, lumper, replum

rump (“rump”) +‎ -le

rumple (plural rumples)

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

• rumple-bane (“rump-bone, coccyx”)