rumsen
German
Alternative forms
- rumschen, rumseln (dialectal)
Etymology
rums + -en, the first element being an onomatopoeia used to describe the impact of something dropping.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈʁʊmzn̩], [ˈʁʊmsn̩]
- Hyphenation: rum‧sen
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Verb
rumsen (weak, third-person singular present rumst, past tense rumste, past participle gerumst, auxiliary haben or sein)
- to bang [+ gegen (etwas) = against]
- (obsolete, vulgar) to tussle or scuffle sportively, to do some fuckry with someone
- Synonyms: sich mutwillig balgen, scherzen, sich rammeln
- (obsolete, vulgar) to have one's wicked way with, to jape
- Synonyms: rummachen, bumsen, sich rammeln
- 1420±50, Adelbert Keller, Gesta Romanorum: das iſt: Der Rœmer tat., Quedlinburg und Leipzig: Gottfr. Basse, page 69:
- Man liſet daz ein leb vnd lebynn vnd eyn liebhart . ein Chůnig hiet erzogen. Vnd die tier hiet er gar liep vnd da der leb . ains tags nicht da waz . do liebet ſich die lebynne mit dem liebhart zů rumſchen. Vnd der leb icht enpfv̊nd den geſtanch an ir.
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Conjugation
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Further reading
- “rumsen” in Duden online
- “rumsen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “rumsen” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
- Wood, Francis A. (1912), “Kontaminationsbildungen und haplologische Mischformen”, in The Journal of English and Germanic Philology (in German), volume 11, issue 3, pages 320–321, Nr. 192 and 195
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