rump v.
1. to copulate.
Wits Paraphras’d 108: But she’s no Greek, ah, can you rump it, / With such a lewd Barbarian strumpet? | ||
View of London & Westminster (2nd part) 39: [in a list of prostitutes] Miss Stand-all [Is Visited] By Sir Richard Rump. | ||
Humphrey Clinker (1925) I 7: I know that hussey Mary Jones loves to be rumping with the men. | ||
5000 Adult Sex Words and Phrases 178: rump the cula (Vulg.) 1. To Copulate with a female from the position of Venus Aversa. | ||
Hazell and the Three-card Trick (1977) 37: I’d only been rumping her as part of the job. | ||
Jailhouse Jargon and Street Sl. [unpub. ms.]. | ||
(con. 1990s) A Few Kind Words and a Loaded Gun 472: Yeah, I’d rump Edwina Currie, but I draw the line at Maggie Thatcher. |
2. to turn one’s back on as a deliberate social snub.
Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue ms. additions n.p.: To Rump any one; to Turn the Back to him: an Evolution sometimes used at Court. | ||
, | Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue (2nd, 3rd edn). | |
Poetical Vagaries (2nd edn) 129: He rumps us quite, and won’t salute us [F&H]. | ||
Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. | ||
History of Gaming Houses & Gamesters 51: For what precise misdeed he got rumped at C—n-house [is] uncertain [...] 53: Wehn the subject to be rumped (or cut) approaches the great man, the latter eyes him over from top to toe [...] and our subject wretch raiseth his downcast eyes [...] and discovereth nought but the royal rump presented to his view. | ||
Ingoldsby Legends (1842) 265: His Holiness not only gets the ‘cold shoulder,’ / But Nick rumps him completely, and don’t seem to care a / Dump – that’s the word – for his triple tiara. | ‘Lay of the Old Woman Clothed in Grey’ in||
Sl. Dict. 273: Rump to turn the back upon any one. A still more decided ‘cut direct’ than the ‘cold shoulder.’. |
3. to flog.
Vocab. of the Flash Lang. in McLachlan (1964) 262: rump’d: flogged or scourged. | ||
Selections from the Letters IV 501: An old friend rumped him, and he winced under it. | ||
Satirist & Sporting Chron. (Sydney) 25 Feb. 2/2: Jemmy— I’ll bet you a rump and dozen we do. Sam— No, I never bet Rumps and Dozens. I’ve been rump’d too often myself. |
4. (US) to have anal intercourse.
Maledicta IV:2 (Winter) 198: Should the man remain superior, but the woman turn prone, he is said to rump her. |
5. used fig. for fuck v. (2a)
It Was An Accident 54: Fuckin’ old bats chipped me 2p on the coffee then tried rumping me on the change. | ||
Layer Cake 207: Jimmy’s been rumped for thirteen million quid by a loda East European grafters. | ||
Raiders 288: I think Budgie got well and truly rumped. |