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Rumple   /rˈəmpəl/   Listen
verb
Rumple  v. t. & v. i.  (past & past part. rumpled; pres. part. rumpling)  To make uneven; to form into irregular inequalities; to wrinkle; to crumple; as, to rumple an apron or a cravat. "They would not give a dog's ear of their most rumpled and ragged Scotch paper for twenty of your fairest assignats."



noun
Rumple  n.  A fold or plait; a wrinkle.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Rumple" Quotes from Famous Books



... upon my houtie croutie (hams), I lookit owre my rumple routie (haunch), And saw John Heezlum Peezlum Playing on ...
— Moon Lore • Timothy Harley

... ambulance an orderly of the R. A. M. C. balanced himself, gaunt-eyed, unshaven, caked from head to foot in yellow mud, the red cross on his untidy brassard looming faintly from its grimy background. Beyond the soles with their worn and glaring nails, a disorderly rumple of brown army blankets, and between the stretchers a confusion of entangled haversacks, water-bottles and equipment, there was nothing to be seen of the patients, though a thin blue haze which curled along the tilt showed that one at least was well ...
— Tam O' The Scoots • Edgar Wallace



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