rumpkinn.
/ˈrʌm(p)kɪn/, U.S. /ˈrəm(p)kən/ Now rare.
A rumpless (tailless) variety of domestic fowl.
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1676 F. Willughby & J. Ray Ornithologiæ ii. x. 110 Gallum Persicum..Hoc genus etiam à nostratibus alitur, & nonnullis Rumkins dicitur.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 251/2 The Persian Cock..wants a rump and tail;..with us they are generally called Rumkines.
1756 A. Russell Nat. Hist. Aleppo i. 63 The rumkin, or cock and hen without rumps.
1793 J. Leslie tr. Comte de Buffon Nat. Hist. Birds II. 114 The Persian Cock, or Rumkin, Gallus ecandatus.
?a1808 Universal Syst. Nat. Hist. VI. 321 The Persian Cock, or Rumpkin: this odd variety, for singular it appears, wants even the rudiment of a tail.
1850 D. J. Browne Amer. Poultry Yard 282 The feathers of the variety of fowls called ‘rumkins’..are as much proof against rain as those of other fowls.
1876 New Monthly Mag. June 650 There is also a variety known to the Arabs as ‘dik Busrawi’, or ‘Rumkin’, which is domesticated under the name of Baghdad fowls.
1900 C. E. Thorne New & Compl. Poultry Bk. (rev. ed.) xxi. 176 The Rumpkins, or Rumpless fowls, were also described by Aldrovandus.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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