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what sheets, suits, and feelings do right before you stop pretending everything is fine.
means to crumple or crease something into untidy wrinkles, or to muss something up so it loses its smooth, composed shape.
from Rumple traces back to Middle English and Middle Dutch 'rompel' or 'rompelen,' meaning a fold or wrinkle — part of a cluster of Germanic words for crumpling and crinkling. It's a cousin, loosely, of the Dutch 'rimpel' (wrinkle), the ancestor of 'rimple,' an old English synonym that lost out to 'rumple' over time. No grand drama in its past — just centuries of cloth and faces refusing to stay flat.
- origin
- 17th century, likely Dutch rompelen, to wrinkle
- not crumple
- rumple is soft disorder, crumple is destruction
- bonus use
- also a surname, see Rumplestiltskin, patron saint of messy hair