rump

Meaning

Noun

1. The hindquarters of a four-legged mammal, not including its legs
2. A cut of meat from the rump of an animal.
3. The buttocks.
4. A remnant, as in Rump Parliament.

Verb

1. (transitive) To turn one's back on, to show one's (clothed) backside to, as a sign of disrespect.
2. (slang, vulgar) To fuck. (Compare bum (verb).)
3. (UK, slang) To cheat.
4. To ramble; to move (or talk) aimlessly.
5. To move (someone or something) around.

Synonyms

buttocks

backside

bottom

butt

arse

bum

ass

🍑

hindquarters

posterior

rear

behind

tail

rear end

tush

buns

derriere

tooshie

nates

tail end

hind end

stern

buttock

keister

fanny

prat

can

croup

fundament

hip

seat

💺

back

🔙

croupe

crupper

butchery cut

base

breech

end

🔚

bump

haunch

haunches

booty

hips

thighs

postern

britches

sacrum

tushes

botty

stock

beneath

Translations

derrière

croupe

sedere

🪑

kont

trasero

🔙

Arsch

Gesäß

culo

🍑

fesses

Hintern

cul

postérieur

Po

Hinterteil

bips

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈɹʌmp/

Etymology

Cognate with Dutch: rimpel

Cognate with German: rümpfen

Cognate with Ancient Greek: ῥάμφος

Cognate with Icelandic: rumpur

Cognate with Swedish: rumpa

Cognate with Dutch: romp

Cognate with German: Rumpf

In summary

From Middle English rumpe, from Old Norse rumpr (“rump”), from Middle Low German rump (“the bulk or trunk of a body, trunk of a tree”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *rumpō (“trunk of a tree, log”). The ultimate origin could be related to Proto-Germanic *hrimpaną (“to wrinkle”) (Dutch rimpel and German rümpfen (“to wrinkle”)); outside of Germanic, compare Ancient Greek ῥάμφος (rhámphos, “crooked beak”).
Cognate with Icelandic rumpur (“rump”), Swedish rumpa (“rump”), Dutch romp (“trunk, body, hull”), German Rumpf (“hull, trunk, torso, trunk”).
In the sense of remnant, first attested in the Rump Parliament of 1648; its original meaning here was a reference to the rotten, unclean hindquarters of an animal, gradually morphing to refer to the "remnant" aspect of the Parliament rather than its perceived unsavory nature.