Forms: see TRUMP sb.1; also 4 Sc. trwmp. [ME. a. OF. tromper (12th c. in Godef.), f. trompe, TRUMP sb.1]
1. intr. To blow or sound a trumpet: = TRUMPET v. 1. Also with up. ? Obs. or arch.
13[?]. Coer de L., 3892. They trumpyd, and her baners displaye.
13[?]. Cursor M., 21307 (Cott.). An … ringes…, dinnes be toþer, trumpes þe thrid.
1375. Barbour, Bruce, VIII. 293. He left his amonystyng, And gert trumpe to þe assemble. Ibid., XII. 491. He gert trwmp vp to the assemble.
1377. Langl., P. Pl., B. XIII. 230. I can noither tabre ne trompe, ne telle none gestes.
c. 1470. Harding, Chron. CCXXX. (MS. Lansd. 204 lf. 219 b). The kynge … trumped vp and home he rode in hy.
1513. Douglas, Æneis, XI. viii. 17. Tharfor trump vp, blaw furth thyne eloquens.
1535. Coverdale, 2 Chron. xiii. 15. The prestes tromped with the trompettes.
b. To give forth a trumpet-like sound; spec. to break wind audibly (slang or vulgar).
c. 1425. Wyntoun, Cron., VI. ii. 176. In publik placis ay fra þat day Scho was behynde þan trumpande ay; Sa wes scho schamyt in ilk steid.
1552. Huloet, Trump or let a crackke, or fart, crepo.
1598. Florio, Trombeggiare,… to snort, to trump or bray as an asse.
1719. D’Urfey, Pills, I. 35. She who doth Trump, Through defect in her rump.
1798. R. Cumberland, Aristoph. Clouds, ii. I too … under sufferance trump against your thunder:… my frights … Have pinch’d and cholick’d my poor bowels so.
a. 1845. [see trumping below].
2. trans. To proclaim, celebrate, or extol by, or as by, the sound of a trumpet: = TRUMPET v. 2 b. Now rare or Obs.
c. 1384. Chaucer, H. Fame, III. 539. Take forth thy trumpe,… That is cleped sklaundre … For thou shalt trumpe alle the contrarie Of that they han don wel or fayre.
1432. trans. Secreta Secret., Priv. Priv., 163. The trues [= truce] weryn trumped vp for that day.
1548. Udall, Erasm. Par. Luke iv. 52. That the fathers glorye may be … troumped abrode by the sonne.
1686. F. Spence, trans. Varillas’ Ho. Medicis, 231. This infirmity … trumpt him up the aversion of such people as knew not otherwise his merit.
1847. L. Hunt, Men, Women, & B., II. i. 4. See also how Pope, and Swift, and others, trumped up Lord Bolingbroke for a philosopher!
¶ 3. intr. To march or go (as at the sound of a trumpet). Cf. quots. 1375, c. 1470 in sense 1. Obs.
1513. Douglas, Æneis, XI. ix. 4. Eneas all his ost and haill army Hes rasyt, trumping to the town in hy. Ibid., xiii. 99. Bot this Orsilochus fed hyr in the feyld, And gan to trump with mony a turnyng went.
Hence Trumping vbl. sb. and ppl. a.
13[?]. K. Alis., 924 (Bodl. MS.). Þer was trumpyng & tabouryng.
1398. Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., IX. xxvii. (Bodl. MS.), lf. 97 b. By trumpinge þe peple was icleped to þis feste þat hatte neomenia.
1631. P. Fletcher, Sicelides, III. iv. F ij b. Thou bluebeard Neptune, and thou trumphing [sic] Triton.
a. 1845. Hood, Schoolboy Joys & Griefs. Six small Boys; Who ever and anon declare their joys, With trumping horns, and juvenile huzzas.
