rump
English
/ˈɹʌmp/
noun
Definitions
- 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 .
Etymology
Derived from Middle English rumpe derived from Old Norse rumpr (rump) derived from Middle Low German rump (trunk of a tree, the bulk trunk of a body) derived from Proto-Germanic *rumpō (log, trunk of a tree).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*rumpō
Gloss
log, trunk of a tree
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Rumper English
- frump English
- frumper English
- frumpery English
- frumpish English
- hawk English
- rumpalicious English
- rumped English
- rumpie English
- rumpless English
- rumplessness English
- rumpologist English
- rumpology English
- rumpy English
- white English
- white-rumped hawk English
- whiterump English
- Rumpf German
- Rumpfwort German
- romp Dutch, Flemish
- scheepsromp Dutch, Flemish
- *rumpō Proto-Germanic
- frumple Middle English
- rumpe Middle English
- rumpr Old Norse
- rumph Middle High German
- rump Middle Low German
- rump Scots