different between rumple vs corrugate

English

Etymology

Compare German rumpeln (“to din, to make the welkin ring”) and Dutch rommelen (“to rumble”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???mp?l/

Verb

rumple (third-person singular simple present rumples, present participle rumpling, simple past and past participle rumpled)

1. (transitive) To make wrinkled, particularly fabric.

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

   • 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France

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

2. (transitive) To muss; to tousle.

Translations

Noun

rumple (plural rumples)

1. A wrinkle.

See also

• Rumplestiltskin

Anagrams

• Lumper, Plumer, lumper, replum

Scots

Etymology

rump (“rump”) +? -le

Noun

rumple (plural rumples)

1. Diminutive of rump
2. (anatomy) rump, tail, haunches, buttocks, seat

Derived terms

• rumple-bane (“rump-bone, coccyx”)

English

Etymology

From Latin corr?g? (“I wrinkle; I corrugate”), from con- + r?ga (“furrow”). Compare Spanish acurrucar (“to snuggle; to curl up because of the cold; to huddle”).

Verb

corrugate (third-person singular simple present corrugates, present participle corrugating, simple past and past participle corrugated)

1. (of the skin) To wrinkle.
2. To fold into parallel folds, grooves or ridges.

Derived terms

• corrugated

Translations

Adjective

corrugate (comparative more corrugate, superlative most corrugate)

1. (obsolete) corrugated; wrinkled; crumpled; furrowed

Italian

Verb

corrugate

1. second-person plural present indicative of corrugare
2. second-person plural imperative of corrugare
3. feminine plural of corrugato

Latin

Verb

corr?g?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of corr?g?