Rump
[rʌmp]
Definition
(noun.) fleshy hindquarters; behind the loin and above the round.
Editor: Stu--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The end of the backbone of an animal, with the parts adjacent; the buttock or buttocks.
(n.) Among butchers, the piece of beef between the sirloin and the aitchbone piece. See Illust. of Beef.
(n.) The hind or tail end; a fag-end; a remnant.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Buttock.
Typist: Marcus
Definition
n. the end of the backbone of an animal with the parts adjacent.—n. Rum′per.—adj. Rump′-fed (Shak.) fattened in the rump fat-bottomed.—adj. Rump′less having no tail.—ns. Rump′-post the share bone or pygostyle of a bird; Rump′-steak steak cut from the thigh near the rump.—The rump the remnant of the Long Parliament after Col. Pryde's expulsion of about a hundred Presbyterian royalist members.
Typist: Randall
Examples
- The Rump Parliament had gone beyond the ideas and conscience of its time. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The eldest, Miss Jemima, wore a sort of a false rump, sticking out so, and Leinster put himself into a most ludicrous attitude. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- There was a group of sober little donkeys with naked, dusky children clambering about them, or sitting astride their rumps, or pulling their tails. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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