Rump meaning
The fleshy hindquarters of an animal.
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A cut of beef or veal from the rump.
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The buttocks.
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The part of a bird's back nearest the tail.
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The last or inferior part.
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A legislature having only a small part of its original membership and therefore being unrepresentative or lacking in authority.
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The hind part of the body of an animal, where the legs and back join, or the sacral part of a bird.
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A cut of meat, usually beef, from this part, behind the loin and above the round.
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The buttocks.
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The last, unimportant or inferior part; mere remnant.
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A legislature or other body having only a remnant of its former membership, as because of expulsions, and hence regarded as unrepresentative and without authority.
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The fleshy hindquarters of an animal.
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The buttocks.
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The part of a bird's back nearest the tail.
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Origin of rump
- Middle English rumpe of Scandinavian origin
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- 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 *rumpÅ (“trunk of a tree, log"). Cognate with Icelandic rumpur (“rump"), Swedish rumpa (“rump"), Dutch romp (“trunk, body, hull"), German Rumpf (“hull, trunk, torso, trunk").
From Wiktionary
- In the sense of remnant, first attested in the Rump Parliament of 1648.
From Wiktionary