Definition & Meaning | English word MUGWUMP
MUGWUMP
Definitions of MUGWUMP
- (chiefly, humorous) A (male) leader; an important (male) person.
- (politics)
- (Australia, US, by extension, colloquial, somewhat, derogatory) A person who stays neutral or non-committal; a fence sitter; also, a person who maintains an aloof and often self-important demeanour.
- (Australia) A foolish person.
- (intransitive) To behave like a mugwump.
- (intransitive) To purport to stay aloof and independent, especially from party politics.
- Alternative form of mugwump.
Number of letters
7
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using MUGWUMP in a Sentence
- Local legend suggests, though isn't confirmed, that a cryptid called the Mugwump lives in a marsh in Ventura, Iowa.
- The jocular word "mugwump", noted as early as 1832, is from Algonquian mugquomp, "important person, kingpin" (from mugumquomp, "war leader"), implying that Mugwumps were "sanctimonious", or "holier-than-thou", in holding themselves aloof from party politics.
- While old political labels like mugwump and progressive have been reinvented several times, and have shifted in meaning as a result, the term goo-goo still has political currency, and has changed little since it was first used in the late 19th century.
- Though from a prominent Republican family Hoar was a Mugwump, leading the Young Men's Democratic Club of Massachusetts during Grover Cleveland's 1884 campaign, and was a member of the House of Representatives in the Fifty-second U.
- While living in Palo Alto, California, Yob came across logic games on a mainframe computer named Hurkle, Snark, and Mugwump.
- Between 1979 and 1982 local citizens embraced the story of the Mugwump, a cryptid alleged to be living in Lake Temiskaming.
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