subs. (vulgar).—1. The posteriors: see BUM. Hence as verb = (1) to slight; (2) to FART AT (q.v.); (3) to SHIT ON (q.v.); (4) to flog (VAUX, 1812), and (5) (venery) to copulate; whence LOOSE IN THE RUMP = wanton; RUMP-SPLITTER = (1) the penis: see PRICK; and (2) a whoremaster. Also subs. (2) = fag end: spec. (political) the remnant of the Long Parliament after Pride’s Purge (1653); whence RUMPER = a Long Parliamentarian. Again RUMP (3) = a whore; RUMPER = a whoremaster; RUMP-WORK = copulation; and verb. = to possess, to FUCK-BUTTOCK. ‘He hath eaten the hen’s RUMP’ (RAY), said of a person full of talk.
c. 1635. Broadside Ballads, ‘Scotch Moggy’s Misfortune’ [Pepy’s Collect. (Bodleian), iii. 288].
| Robin he chast me about the stack, | |
| Robin laid me on my back, | |
| Robin he made my RUMP to crack. |
1653. URQUHART, Rabelais, I. xi. Some of the women would give these names … my crimson chitterling, RUMP-SPLITTER, shove-devil.
1660. PEPYS, Diary, 7 March. Sir Arthur appeared at the House; what was done I know not, but there was all the RUMPERS almost come to the House to-day.
1661. Old Song, ‘There was three Birds’ [FARMER, Merry Songs and Ballads (1897), i. 141].
| There was three birds that built on a stump, | |
| The first and the second cry’d, have at her RUMP, | |
| The third he went merrily in and in, in. |
1662. The Rump [Title].
1708–10. SWIFT, Polite Conversation, Int. The art of blasphemy or free-thinking … first brought in by the fanatie faction … and … carried to Whitehall by the converted RUMPERS.
1711. D’URFEY, The Fart [Wit and Mirth; or Pills to Purge Melancholy (1719), i. 28]. Gave a proof she was LOOSE IN HER RUMP.
1807. SOUTHEY, Letters, iv. 501. An old friend RUMPED him, and he winced under it.
1812. COLMAN, Poetical Vagaries, 129. Who, when he RUMPS us quite, and won’t salute us.
