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Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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rump

/ˈɹʌmp/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms rumps rumping rumped

  1. noun The hindquarters of a four-legged mammal, not including its legs
  2. noun A cut of meat from the rump of an animal.
  3. noun The buttocks.
  4. noun A remnant, as in Rump Parliament.
  5. verb (transitive) To turn one's back on, to show one's (clothed) backside to, as a sign of disrespect.
  6. verb (somewhat vulgar, slang) To fuck. (Compare bum (verb).)
  7. verb (UK, slang) To cheat.
  8. verb To ramble; to move (or talk) aimlessly.
  9. verb To move (someone or something) around.
  10. proper noun A surname.
  11. proper noun (UK, historical, with the) The Rump Parliament of 1648-1653 and 1659-1660. “Before executing Charles I, the Rump made it illegal to proclaim anyone else king to replace him.”
  12. proper noun (US politics, derogatory) Nickname for Q22686 (born 1946), President of the United States (2017–2021; since 2025).

Synonyms

round croupe crupper buttocks DJT The Donald Trump Cheeto Dementia Don Diaper Don Dirty Donald Donald Duck Donald Trumpet Don Snoreleone Don the Con Dozy Don Drumpf Dump Forrest Trump Frump hindquarters croup nates arse butt backside bum buns can fundament

Etymology

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 *rumpō (“trunk of a tree, log”). The ultimate origin could be related to Proto-Germanic *hrimpaną (“to wrinkle”) (Dutch rimpel and German rümpfen (“to wrinkle”)); outside of Germanic, compare Ancient Greek ῥάμφος (rhámphos, “crooked beak”).
Cognate with Icelandic rumpur (“rump”), Swedish rumpa (“rump”), Dutch romp (“trunk, body, hull”), German Rumpf (“hull, trunk, torso, trunk”).
In the sense of remnant, first attested in the Rump Parliament of 1648; its original meaning here was a reference to the rotten, unclean hindquarters of an animal, gradually morphing to refer to the "remnant" aspect of the Parliament rather than its perceived unsavory nature.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The end of the backbone of an animal, with the parts adjacent; the buttock or buttoks.
  2. noun Among butchers, the piece of beef betwen the sirloin and the aitchbone piece. See Illust. of Beef.

Etymology [OE. rumpe; akin to D. romp trunk, body, LG. rump, G. rumpf, Dan. rumpe rump, Icel. rumpr, Sw. rumpa rump, tail.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “rump”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details