rumple

name

1. A surname.

noun

Etymology: From Middle English rimplen (“to become wrinkled”). Compare German rumpeln (“to din, to make the welkin ring”) and Dutch rommelen (“to rumble”).

1. A wrinkle.

verb

Etymology: From Middle English rimplen (“to become wrinkled”). Compare German rumpeln (“to din, to make the welkin ring”) and Dutch rommelen (“to rumble”).

1. To make wrinkled, particularly fabric.

   “I'll rumple my bedsheets so it looks like I was here last night.”

   “They would not give a dog's ear of their most rumpled and ragged Scotch paper for twenty of your fairest assignats.”

2. To muss; to tousle.