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rumpty adjective [ ˈrʌm(p)ti ]

• in poor repair.
• "we did the trek in a rumpty rental Toyota hatchback"
Origin: 1940s: perhaps an ironic extension of an earlier sense ‘excellent’, from the regional English noun rumty-tummer ‘unusually large vegetable or fruit’, ‘favourite object or pastime’.


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