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 2. (naval and military).—A prostitute: see Tart.

Rumkin, subs. (old).—1. A drinking vessel.

1636. Davenant, The Wits, iv. 2. Wine ever flowing in large Saxon romekins About my board.

2. (old).—A tailless fowl.

Rumly (or Romely). See Rum.

Rummage, verb. (venery).—To grope (or possess) a woman; to firky-toodle (q.v.).

Rummy. See Rum.

Rum-mill, subs. phr. (American).—A grog-shop; a lush-crib (q.v.).

Rump, subs. (vulgar).—1. The posteriors: see Bum. Hence as verb = (1) to slight; (2) to fart at (q.v.); (3) to shit on (q.v.); (4) to flog (Vaux, 1812), and (5) (venery) to copulate; whence loose in the rump = wanton; rump-splitter = (1) the penis: see Prick; and (2) a whoremaster. Also subs. (2) = fag end: spec. (political) the remnant of the Long Parliament after Pride's Purge (1653); whence rumper = a Long Parliamentarian. Again rump (3) = a whore; rumper = a whoremaster; rump-work = copulation; and verb. = to possess, to fuck-buttock. 'He hath eaten the hen's rump' (Ray), said of a person full of talk.

c. 1635. Broadside Ballads, 'Scotch Moggy's Misfortune' [Pepy's Collect. (Bodleian), iii. 288]. Robin he chast me about the stack, Robin laid me on my back, Robin he made my rump to crack.

1653. Urquhart, Rabelais, 1. xi. Some of the women would give these names my crimson chitterling, rump-splitter, shove-devil.

1660. Pepys, Diary, 7 Mar. Sir Arthur appeared at the House; what was done I know not, but there was all the rumpers almost come to the House to-day.

1661. Old Song, 'There was three Birds' [Farmer, Merry Songs and Ballads (1807), i. 141]. There was three birds that built on a stump, The first and the second cry'd, have at her rump, The third he went merrily in and in.

1662. The Rump [Title].

1708-10. Swift, Pol. Conv., Int. The art of blasphemy or free-thinking first brought in by the fanatic faction and carried to Whitehall by the converted rumpers.

1711. Durfey, The Fart [Pills to Purge (1719), i. 28]. Gave a proof she was loose in her rump.

1807. Southey, Letters, iv. 501. An old friend rumped him, and he winced under it.

1814. Coleman, Poetical Vagaries, 129 [2nd ed.]. He rumps us quite, and won't salute us.

Rump-and-dozen, subs. phr. (old).—An Irish wager: i.e., 'A rump of beef and a dozen of claret' (Grose).

Rump-and-Kidney Men, subs. phr. (old).—'Fidlers that Play at Feasts, Fairs, Weddings, &c., And Live chiefly on the Remnants, or Victuals' (B. E., Grose).

Rump-and-Stump, phr. (colloquial).—Entirely; completely.

Rumpty, subs. (Stock Exchange).—The thirty-second part of a pound sterling; a tooth (q.v.).

Rumpus, subs. (common).—(1) A row; a noise; a disturbance: also as verb. and adj. (Grose); (2) = a masquerade (Vaux, 1812).

1763. Foote, Mayor of Garratt, ii. 2. Oh Major! such a riot and rumpus!

1819. Moore, Tom Crib, 6. And, setting in case there should come such a rumpus.