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Definition of Rumply
1. a. Rumpled.
Definition of Rumply
1. Adjective. (obsolete) rumpled ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Rumply
1. rumpled [adj -PLIER, -PLIEST]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rumply
Literary usage of Rumply
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"... like a mass of tarry wool proverbially ill to spin" they spin out, better or
worse, their rumply, infirm thread of Existence, and wind it up, up, ..."
2. The Best Short Stories of ... and the Yearbook of the American Short Story edited by Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien (1918)
"... rumply legs of his trousers tucked down in them, and ballooning up and out
over the tops in folds which overlapped from his knee joints halfway down his ..."
3. All's Well! by John Oxenham (1916)
"for your rumply caps! My! Ain't you black-an'-tanned I Narcissus! vi'lets!—all
abloom,— We're glad to see you back. Primroses!—dafs! Thenk Gawd you laughs, ..."
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