Citations:rump


 * to move by wiggling one's rump


 * 2000, Noelle Frances Ferry, Lies and Raspberry Coffee, iUniverse (ISBN 9780595097234), page 112:
 * The ice-covered yard stretched in front of her, vanished at the hill&#39;s crest. Sweat from effort and nerves dripped from her face. She took a deep breath, pushed against the ice, and slowly wiggled and rumped her way to the crest of the driveway.


 * to rutch, or to rumple?


 * 1944, Gay Rutherford, A Good Wife
 * She had washed his face with cold water, and he had hugged her and dragged her down on the bed with him and rumped her dress. She had scolded him and then melted in his arms, because she was helpless when he kissed her.
 * 2017, Carol Norton, The Phantom Yacht, Litres (ISBN 9785040543533):
 * ... an&#39; Ma said, &#39;Like&#39;s not someone&#39;s sick over to the mansion!&#39; Pa got into his clothes fast as greased lightnin&#39;, took a lantern and went down to the porch, and thar was the ol&#39; Colonel wi&#39;out any hat on. His gray hair was all rumped up and his ...


 * to be cold?


 * 2014, Paul Greenwood, More Tales From A Cornish Lugger, Polperro Heritage Press (ISBN 9780957646148)
 * When the landlord called time, it was out again into the keen night air, all rumped up in our jackets, to yarn our way back to the welcome of the Prosperity&#39;s cabin with its little black coal stove keeping it warm and snug for us.
 * 1983, Frederick William Pearce Jago, The Ancient Language and the Dialect of Cornwall: With an Enlarged Glossary, Ams PressInc
 * Rumped up. Feeling cold and miserable, “rumped up with the cold.” See Scrumped up . Rumpy. Anything coarse and uneven, as of cotton &amp;c.


 * to dishonestly remove someone or push them out (from a space, a place of employment, etc) (?) or the same as "turn one's back on"?


 * 1821, The Bon Ton Magazine; Or, Fashionable Critic, page 268:
 * ... and at court, in place of the honest manner which characterized our forefathers, who, when they did not like a man, told him so to his face, and bade him walk out of the room, the improved modern way now is to rump him out. and no sooner has the humbled scraper been rumped by the geat object of adoration,
 * 1906, The Leather Workers' Journal, page 6:
 * and by intelligence and common sense converts them to his way of thinking put him down as an old woman and a scab. If you cannot defeat him any other way, and he happens to work in the same shop with you, rump him if you can; tell the foreman or the boss that he is killing time; that he cannot hold his end up with you and is no mechanic; have him discharged.


 * to bump with, or as with, the rump


 * year unknown, Supreme Court Appellate Division Fourth Dept. Vol. 2439, page 227:
 * ... walked about 35 feet, and that he then got up and went after the bull; that the bull then attacked him again and that the bull “rumped him” toward the watering  trough; that the plaintiff made no claim or statement to him at that time that the bull.
 * 1957, The Saturday Evening Post Stories:
 * Barney rumped him out to the step, but the kid hung onto the door. Wind roared into the cab. Cold. Slicing up Barney's trouser's legs, pressing his shirt. The rig's heavy treads machinegunned the pavement. Barney slid solidly behind the big ...


 * unclear:


 * 1892, Wybert Reeves, From Life, page 195:
 * and, to turn again to the account, the instant he was placed in front of the representative of all the Russias, he darted at him with John Bull courage, but Bruin instantly rumped him to save his snout, and, with all the coyness of a maiden ...
 * 2005, Elton Glaser, Here and Hereafter: Poems, University of Arkansas Press (ISBN 9781557287960), page 98:
 * That winter so mean we took the mule in
 * To the schoolhouse and rumped him up aside the stove,
 * He didn't stink no worse than the rest of them
 * And was just as smart.