Rumpern.
/ˈrʌmpə/, U.S. /ˈrəmpər/ Now historical.
A member or supporter of the Rump Parliament (see Rump Parliament n. at rump n.1 Compounds 2).
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1657–8 in R. W. Greaves Ist Ledger Bk. of High Wycombe (1956) 157 A charter from Olliver in the Rumpers' time.
1665 W. Winstanley Loyall Martyrol. 152 A great Rumper, and Enemy to Royal Government.
1707 E. Ward Hudibras Redivivus II. xii. 8 'Cause the Rumpers were about, Thro' Jealousy, to turn him out.
1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. p. xxxiv Blasphemy or Free-Thinking..[was] after the Restoration, carried to Whitehall by the converted Rumpers.
1789 Amer. Jest Bk. 81 The first question that one of the rumpers asked him was, Friend, are you not a tinker?
1826 W. Scott Woodstock III. ii. 53 The possession of such a prize..might obtain from the Rumpers..a reward.
1887 J. Westby-Gibson in Dict. National Biogr. IX. 460 Chaloner, being elected..for Scarborough, became a zealous ‘rumper’.
1941 D. M. Wolfe Milton in Puritan Revol. viii. 231 The Rumpers were as determined as ever to subordinate military to civil authority.
1966 C. Hill Cent. Revol. xvii. 264 Dryden accused the old Rumper and Whig, Slingsby Bethel, of holding ‘that kings were useless’.
2003 S. Kelsey in B. Coward Compan. Stuart Brit. xvii. 334 In December 1659 Monck brought the Rumpers back for a third shot.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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