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trumped | rumped |

As a verb trumped

is past tense of trump.

As an adjective rumped is

(in combination) having the specified form of rump.

trumped

English

Verb

(head)
  • (trump)

    • trump

    English

    Etymology 1

    Possibly from Italian trionfi (triumph(s) ).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (US, in the singular, cards) The suit, in a game of cards, that outranks all others.
  • (British, in the plural, cards) The suit, in a game of cards, that outranks all others.
    • Diamonds were declared trumps .
  • (cards) A playing card of that suit.
    • He played an even higher trump .
  • (figuratively) Something that gives one an advantage, especially one held in reserve.
  • An excellent person; a fine fellow, a good egg.
  • * 1851 ,
    • All hands voted Queequeg a noble trump ; the captain begged his pardon.
  • * Thackeray
    • Alfred is a trump , I think you say.
  • An old card game, almost identical to whist; the game of ruff.
    • (Decker)
  • (in the plural) The major arcana of the tarot
  • A card of the major arcana

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (cards) To play a trump (on a card of another suit).
    • He knew the hand was lost when his ace was trumped .
  • (cards) To play a trump, or to take a trick with a trump
  • To get the better of, or finesse, a competitor.
  • * Ben Jonson
    • to trick or trump mankind
  • (dated) To impose unfairly; to palm off.
  • * C. Leslie
    • Authors have been trumped upon us.
  • To supersede.
    • In this election, it would seem issues of national security trumped economic issues.
    Synonyms
    * (To play a trump card on another suit) ruff * (To get the better of a competitor) outsmart
    Coordinate terms
    * (To play a trump card on another suit) underruff, overruff
    Derived terms
    * the last trump * no trump * overtrump * trump card * trump out * trump up * under trump

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) trompe "trumpet" from (etyl) trompe "horn, trump, trumpet", from (etyl) * "trumpet". Akin to (etyl) trumpa, trumba "horn, trumpet", (etyl) tromme "drum", (etyl) trumme "drum". More at (l), (l).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A trumpet.
  • * Bible, 1 Corinthians 15:52
    • In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To blow a trumpet.
  • (intransitive, slang, UK) To flatulate.
    • And without warning me, as he lay there, he suddenly trumped next to me in bed.

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    rumped

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (in combination ) having the specified form of rump

    • Derived terms

    (-Rumped things) * band-rumped swift * barnacle-rumped dragonfly * black-rumped agouti * black-rumped buttontail * black-rumped flameback * black-rumped waxbill * blue-rumped manakin * blue-rumped parrot * blue-rumped bitta * bright-rumped attila * brown-rumped bunting * brown-rumped foliage-gleaner * brown-rumped seedeater * brown-rumped tapaculo * buff-rumped thornbill * buff-rumped warbler * buff-rumped woodpecker * chestnut-rumped babbler * chestnut-rumped heathwren * chestnut-rumped thornbill * chestnut-rumped woodcreeper * cinnamon-rumped foliage-gleaner * cinnamon-rumped trogon * copper-rumped hummingbird * creamy-rumped miner * crimson-rumped toucanet * crimson-rumped waxbill * dark-rumped swift * dark-rumped rosefinch * flame-rumped sapphire * flame-rumped tanager * golden-rumped elephant shrew * golden-rumped euphonia * golden-rumped flowerpecker * goose-rumped * gray-rumped swift * green-rumped parrotlet * grey-rumped swallow * Indian white-rumped vulture * naked-rumped pouched bat * naked-rumped tomb rat * ochre-rumped antbird * ochre-rumped bunting * olive-rumped serin * opal-rumped tanager * pale-rumped swift * pink-rumped rosefinch * purple-rumped sunbird * red-rumped bush-tyrant * red-rumped cacique * red-rumped myzomela * red-rumped parrot * red-rumped swallow * red-rumped tinkerbird * red-rumped warbling-finch * red-rumped waxtail * red-rumped wheater * red-rumped woodpecker * rufous-rumped antwren * rufous-rumped foliage-gleaner * rufous-rumped grassbird * sapphire-rumped parrotlet * scarlet-rumped cacique * scarlet-rumped trogon * silver-rumped spinetail * sulphur-rumped tanager * tawny-rumped tyrannulet * wedge-rumped storm-petrel * white-rumped babbler * white-rumped cuckoo-shrike * white-rumped falcon * white-rumped hawk * white-rumped kingfisher * white-rumped monjita * white-rumped needletail * white-rumped robin * white-rumped sandpiper * white-rumped seedeater * white-rumped shama * white-rumped snowfinch * white-rumped swallow * white-rumped swift * white-rumped swiftlet * white-rumped tanager * white-rumped triller * yellow-rumped antwren * yellow-rumped cacique * yellow-rumped eremomela * yellow-rumped flowerpecker * yellow-rumped flycatcher * yellow-rumped honeyguide * yellow-rumped leaf-eared mouse * yellow-rumped marshbird * yellow-rumped munia * yellow-rumped serin * yellow-rumped siskin * yellow-rumped thornbill * yellow-rumped tinkerbird * yellow-rumped warbler

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