rump

[ ruhmp ]

/ rʌmp /

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noun

the hind part of the body of an animal, as the hindquarters of a quadruped or sacral region of a bird.

a cut of beef from this part of the animal, behind the loin and above the round.

the buttocks.

the last part, especially that which is unimportant or inferior: a rump of territory.

the remnant of a legislature, council, etc., after a majority of the members have resigned or been expelled.

the Rump, English History. Rump Parliament.

adjective

constituting a subsidiary or small group or the remnant of a once larger organization: Our local Shakespeare Club will hold a rump meeting at the Elizabethan Drama Teachers' convention.

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Origin of rump

1375–1425; late Middle English rumpe<Scandinavian; compare Danish, Norwegian, Swedish rumpe rump, tail; cognate with German Rumpf body, trunk

OTHER WORDS FROM rump

rumpless, adjective

Words nearby rump

rummer, rummy, rumor, rumormonger, rumour, rump, Rumpelstiltskin, rumpf, rumple, rumply, rumpo

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How to use rump in a sentence

More unusual were the labels torn from the front of meat packages — tenderloins, rump roasts, for example — and pasted to the inside of one kitchen cabinet.
It’s not a matter of if. The walls in these houses do talk, through hidden messages.|John Kelly|September 21, 2021|Washington Post
A few hundred yards from yesterday’s turnaround point, a scraggly, blond grizzly was scratching his rump on a concrete guardrail.
The Perfect Summer Day in Denali National Park|Emily Pennington|May 24, 2021|Outside Online
He called her “a silly chattering windbag, an infernal liar, a conceited, gushing, rump-wagging, blethering ass.”
Gertrude of Arabia, the Woman Who Invented Iraq|Clive Irving|June 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Whether the vote in a rump referendum over the weekend genuinely reflected public opinion in the eastern-most regions is doubtful.
Ukraine’s Fighting Words|Igor Kossov|May 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST

According to SEC filings, it is this rump company which will be left with liability for any crimes.
Rupert Murdoch Recalled to Parliament as Police Launch Investigation|Peter Jukes|July 9, 2013|DAILY BEAST
The House GOP rump is once again running the show, leaving John Boehner scrambling and donors increasingly exasperated.
The GOP’s Kamikazes Are Back|Eleanor Clift|June 22, 2013|DAILY BEAST
The GOP today is a rump amalgamation of plutocrats and the people who service their air conditioning.
Michael Tomasky: Obama Is Winning Because of the Shrinking GOP|Michael Tomasky|July 15, 2012|DAILY BEAST
A remnant of the long parliament assembled during the anarchy, and has been termed the rump.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology|Joel Munsell
In the evening, bonfires were made, but nothing to the great number that was heretofore at the burning of the Rump.
Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete|Samuel Pepys
The fat of the rump or tail is considered a great delicacy, and in hot climates resembles oil, and in colder, suet.
Domestic Animals|Richard L. Allen
Dr. Boothroyd renders one of the foregoing passages, "the large, fat tail entire, taken clear to the rump."
Domestic Animals|Richard L. Allen
The first of these characters consists in the rump being bare, on which are natural callosities peculiar to those parts.
Buffon's Natural History. Volume IX (of 10)|Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon

British Dictionary definitions for rump

rump

/ (rʌmp) /

noun

the hindquarters of a mammal, not including the legs

the rear part of a bird's back, nearest to the tail

a person's buttocks

Also called: rump steak a cut of beef from behind the loin and above the round

an inferior remnant

Derived forms of rump

rumpless, adjective

Word Origin for rump

C15: from Scandinavian; compare Danish rumpe, Icelandic rumpr, German Rumpf trunk of the body

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