Rumpishadj.
/ˈrʌmpɪʃ/, U.S. /ˈrəmpɪʃ/ Chiefly historical.
Of or belonging to the Rump Parliament (see Rump Parliament n. at rump n.1 Compounds 2). Later also in extended use.
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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > governing or legislative body of a nation or community > English or British parliament > [adjective] > relating to specific parliament
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1660 T. Widdowes (title) The just Devil of Woodstock; or..the Frights and Punishments inflicted upon the Rumpish Commissioners sent thither..in the Year 1649.
1679 R. Burton Versatile Ingenium 228 A Cavalier in Oxford-shire..once meeting with some of the Rumpish Officers at Oxford, says one of them to him, God save you Noble Squire, and you, says he, if it be possible.
1731 E. Cooke Maryland Muse (ed. 3) 8 Pretending Love to Government..Thus did old Noll, and Rumpish Fellows.
a1763 J. Byrom Poems (1894–5) I. 312 A Rumpish Martyr, blunder'd to his Death.
1809 Monthly Mirror Mar. 166 The prothonotary had been an official man in all the forms; the monarchical,..the protectorial, and the rumpish.
1893 tr. A. Dumas Vicomte de Bragelonne in Wks. I. 299 The rebel army..began to prefer the good cause to the bad one, and the parliament, rumpish as it was, to the pompous nothings of Lambert's designs.
1904 A. Lang Hist. Scotl. III. ix. 278 The Covenants were revived by the Rumpish Parliament restored by Monk.
1999 Maclean's (Nexis) 15 Feb. 32 With the Liberals facing four rumpish regional opposition parties, House of Commons business was never going to keep Chretien awake at night.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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