From Middle English rumblen, romblen, rummelyn, frequentative form of romen ("to roar"), equivalent to rome + -le.

• (British, America) IPA: /ˈɹʌmb(ə)l/

rumble (plural rumbles)

1. A low, heavy, continuous sound, such as that of thunder or a hungry stomach.

   The rumble from passing trucks made it hard to sleep at night.

2. (slang) A street fight or brawl.
3. A rotating cask or box in which small articles are smoothed or polished by friction against each other.
4. (dated) A seat for servants, behind the body of a carriage.
   • 1840-1841, Charles Dickens, Master Humphrey's Clock:

     Kit, well wrapped, […] was in the rumble behind.

   • 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter I, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC ↗, page 2 ↗:

     "I never was so sorry for any thing as for Mr. Glentworth's death," said Isabella Granard, endeavouring to screen her face from a small, sharp rain, to which her place in the rumble of a travelling carriage left her quite exposed.

• French: borborygme (stomach), gargouillement (stomach), grondement (thunder)
• German: Poltern, Rumpeln, (thunder) Grollen
• Italian: sferragliamento, rombo, rimbombo
• Portuguese: ronco, ribombo
• Russian: гро́хот

• German: Schlägerei
• Italian: rissa, caciara, battibecco
• Portuguese: briga
• Russian: сты́чка
• Spanish: pelea callejera, riña

rumble (rumbles, present participle rumbling; simple past and past participle rumbled)

1. (intransitive) To make a low, heavy, continuous sound.

   If I don't eat, my stomach will rumble.

   I could hear the thunder rumbling in the distance.

2. (transitive) To discover deceitful or underhanded behaviour.

   The police is going to rumble your hideout.

3. (intransitive) To move while making a rumbling noise.

   The truck rumbled over the rough road.

4. (slang, intransitive) To fight; to brawl.
5. (video games, intransitive, of a game controller) To provide haptic feedback by vibrating.
6. (transitive) To cause to pass through a rumble, or polishing machine.
7. (obsolete, intransitive) To murmur; to ripple.

• French: gronder
• German: rumpeln; (stomach:) knurren
• Italian: brontolare, rimbombare
• Portuguese: roncar
• Russian: грохота́ть
• Spanish: retumbar, rugir (stomach)

• German: spitzkriegen, durchschauen
• Italian: smascherare

• Italian: sferragliare

• Portuguese: brigar

1. An onomatopoeia describing a rumbling noise

A variant of Rumbold, Rumbel or Rumpel.

1. Surname.
2. An unincorporated community in Pike County, Indiana.
3. An unincorporated community in Boone County, West Virginia.