rump n.
1. a prostitute.
![]() | Blind Beggar of Bednall-Green Act IV: You shall likewise see the amorous conceits and Love songs betwixt Captain Pod of Py-corner, and Mrs. Rump of Ram-alley. | |
![]() | ‘Aretine’ Strange and True Newes 3: Ordered that clean smocks be in request and alwayes ready though the Rump be rotten, and that no one scruple the giving the Pox. | |
![]() | Wits Paraphras’d 86: Full dear I long’d to be a Bitching — / Of some young Rump I wish thy Maw full / That thou mayst pray on food that’s lawfull. | |
![]() | Sl. and Its Analogues. |
2. sexual intercourse.
![]() | Rivethead (1992) 105: Some droolin’ psychopath who ain’t had any rump since LBJ croaked. |
In derivatives
used as a general insult, spec. a supporter of the reduced Parliament that followed Pride’s Purge of the Long Parliament in 1649.
![]() | ‘Helter Skelter’ in | Poems on Divers Subjects (1706) : I fay, he's Rumpifh that abuses / The High-Church, or her Health refuses.
SE in slang uses
In compounds
(UK Und.) a whipping.
![]() | New and Improved Flash Dict. |
a male homosexual.
![]() | Sl. U. | |
![]() | 🌐 There I was infatuated with what I thought was a prime candidate for The Pussy Eater’s Hall of Fame when all along I was giving all my sweet loving to a booty bandit, a rump wrangler, a sword swallower. No wonder he knew how to eat a pussy so damn good. | Heat Seekers|
![]() | Destination: Morgue! (2004) 212: The hills magnetized fruits. [...] Rump rangers rutted in parked cars. | ‘Hollywood Fuck Pad’ in|
![]() | Widespread Panic 72: Dole out the dish on Rump Ranger Rock [Hudson]. |
a male homosexual.
![]() | Vere Street Coterie 47: It is said that the ghost of White, the drummer boy, lately executed for Sodomy, pays his nocturnal visits to old Moggy, the rump-rider, Park-street. |
(US) an act of sexual intercourse.
![]() | Alt. Eng. Dict. 🌐 rump-shaker (noun) the act of sexual intercourse. | |
![]() | Portable Promised Land (ms.) 156: We Words (My Favorite Things) [...] Hotstepper. Crumbsnatcher. Rumpshaker. |
1. the penis.
![]() | Gargantua and Pantagruel (1927) I Bk I 44: And some of the other women would give these names [...] my lusty live sausage, my crimson chitterlin, rump-splitter, shove-devil, down right to it, stiff and stout, in and to, at her again, my coney-borrow-ferret, wily-beguiley, my pretty rogue. | (trans.)|
![]() | Memoirs of Madge Buford 55: ‘It’s a splitter! [...] Oh, he’s swelling! I’m coming! Squeeze his balls’. |
2. a lecher, a womanizer.
![]() | Sl. and Its Analogues. |
In phrases
to be stupid.
![]() | World I Never Made 123: Jesus, Dan, you don’t know your rump from a hole in the ground, do you? |
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