English
rumptious
Blend of rump (“the buttocks”) + scrumptious.
A blend of rump ‘the buttocks’ + scrumptious
Proto-Germanic *rumpō ‘trunk of a tree, log’
Middle Low German rump ‘the bulk or trunk of a body, trunk of a tree’
Old Norse rumpr
Middle English rumpe
English rump
Today it means
adj Of a person's buttocks: large, well-shaped.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “rumptious”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.
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