rumpus

English

Etymology

1764, of unknown origin; "prob. a fanciful formation" [OED]; possibly an alteration of rumbustical or rumbustious (“boisterous, noisy”) + Latin -us (“nominative suffix”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

rumpus (plural rumpuses)

1. A noisy, sometimes violent disturbance; noise and confusion; a noisy quarrel or brawl.
   • 1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 166:

     "I'd like to know how on earth we are going to finish the case with all this umptydoodle rumpus going on."

   • 2016 February 7, Michael Barbaro, “Once Impervious, Marco Rubio Is Diminished by a Caustic Chris Christie”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     But as his rumpus with Mr. Christie entered its second and third rounds, Mr. Rubio appeared to abandon that game plan.

   • 2020 February 12, Jack Met, Adam Met, Ryan Met, “Bang!”, in OK Orchestra‎^[2], performed by AJR:

     I get up, I get down, and I'm jumping around / And the rumpus and ruckus are comfortable now / Been a hell of a ride, but I'm thinking it's time to grow / Bang! Bang! Bang!

2. (New Zealand, Australia, Canada) A rumpus room.

Synonyms

• ruckus, turmoil

Translations

noise and confusion

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: врява (bg) f (vrjava), суматоха (bg) f (sumatoha)
• Czech: povyk (cs) m, kravál (cs) m, mela (cs) f
• Dutch: geschil (nl),geroep (nl),verwarring (nl)
• French: conflit (fr) m, confusion (fr) f, divergence (fr) f
• Galician: please add this translation if you can
• German: Krach (de) m, Rabatz (de) m
• Greek: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: balhé (hu), zrí (hu)
• Italian: chiasso (it)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian: rumpus
• Plautdietsch: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: шум (ru) (šum), гам (ru) (gam), гвалт (ru) (gvalt)
• Slovene: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: revuelo (es)
• Swedish: tumult (sv) n, bråk (sv) n, rabalder (sv) n
• Welsh: helynt f, ffrwgwd m, twrw m

See also

• romp

Latin

Etymology

Unknown.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈrum.pus/, [ˈrʊmpʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈrum.pus/, [ˈrumpus]

Noun

rumpus m (genitive rumpī); second declension

1. A vine branch

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	rumpus	rumpī
genitive	rumpī	rumpōrum
dative	rumpō	rumpīs
accusative	rumpum	rumpōs
ablative	rumpō	rumpīs
vocative	rumpe	rumpī

Synonyms

• trādux

Derived terms

• rumpōtinētum
• rumpōtinus

References

• “rumpus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• rumpus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.