RUMPLE, RUMPLED
ADJECTIVES
► BUMFLY of clothing, etc.: rumpled, puckered; bulging; of a person; wearing such clothing, untidy in appearance → 1887 Sc. & N. Ireland
► CRINKLY-CRANKLY crooked, twisted; rumpled → 1850 colloq.
► DOG-EARED worn, creased, and rumpled; shabby, unkempt → 19C Amer. sl.
► FROWZLED rumpled, tousled, dishevelled → 1808
► FROWZLY rumpled, tousled, dishevelled → 1872
► MALAGRUIZED ► MALAGRUZED in disorder, rumpled → 1864 Sc.
► MUSSED UP untidy, messy, disordered; rumpled; confused; of hair: ruffled, tousled → 1857 colloq., chiefly US
► MUSSY untidy, rumpled; of hair: tousled, ruffled → 1859 colloq., chiefly US
► RUMPLETY crumpled, rumpled → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
►TAFFLED tangled, rumpled, disordered → 1866 obs. (Bk.)
NOUNS
► RUNKLE a wrinkle; a rumple; a crease → a1400 now chiefly Sc. & Irish usage
VERBS
► BUMFLE to cause clothing etc. to gather in untidy folds and wrinkles; to rumple, to pucker → 1911 chiefly Sc. & N. Ireland
► CRUNKLE to wrinkle, to rumple, to crinkle → c1400 chiefly Eng. dial.
► FROWZE to curl, to frizz, to ruffle, to rumple → 1611 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► GRUGGLE to disorder or disfigure by much handling; to rumple, to crumple, to crease → 1804 Sc.
► MISCOMFRUMPLE to rumple, to crease; e.g. if one female sits so close to another as to rumple or crease her dress by pressing or sitting on it, she is said to ‘miscomfrumple’ it → 1854 Eng. dial.
► MISGOOGLE ► MISGRUGLE ► MISGUGGLE to disfigure, to spoil, to mar; to handle roughly; to rumple → 1742 Sc.
► MUCKLE UP to disarrange, to jumble, to rumple → 1970 Amer. dial.
► MUSS to make untidy; to rumple → 19C sl.
► MUX to rumple, to make a mess of; to put in disorder → 1806 Amer.
► NAFFLE to rumple; to mess → 1864 Sc.
► RUNKLE to wrinkle; to rumple; to crumple; to crush → a1425
► SCRUPLE to rumple; to twist up; to wrinkle → 1913 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► TAFFLE to handle roughly, to ruffle, to rumple, to disarrange → 1842 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► TEW to shake, to toss; to keep in motion; to rumple, to disarrange; to tumble; to pull about → 1870 Eng. dial.
► WAFFLE to crease, to crinkle, to rumple → 1825 Sc.
► WOOL to rumple, to tousle; to play roughly with → 1864 Amer. sl.