Obs. exc. dial. Also 56 fromple, 5 frompel, 6 frompill. [? ad. Du. verrompelen (Kilian) of same meaning, f. ver- = FOR- + rompelen to RUMPLE.]
1. trans. To wrinkle, crumple.
1398. Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., V. l. (1495), 168. The flesshe in the buttockes is fromplyd and knotty.
c. 1489. Caxton, Sonnes of Aymon, i. 48. He frompeled his forhede and knytted his browes.
1493. Festivall (W. de W., 1515), 112 b. She founde all his clothes frompled.
1578. Lyte, Dodoens, VI. iv. 660. The leaves are not smoth, but crompled or frompled.
1611. Cotgr., Plionner, to wrinkle, crumple, frumple.
182580. Jamieson, Frumple, to crease, to crumple.
1828. Carr, Craven Gloss. (ed. 2), 168. Frumple, To wrinkle, to ruffle or disorder.
2. ? To rumple, tumble.
a. 1529. Skelton, Manerly Margery, 16. What wolde ye frompill me? now fy!
Hence Frumpled ppl. a.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 181/2. Frumplyd, rugatus.
1896. Warwicksh. Gloss., s.v., A frumpled pinafore.