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Word of the Day Mugwump

May 2, 2017 by GµårÐïåñ
WordMugwump
Syllablemug·wump
Sound[ˈməɡˌwəmp]
TYPE

    North American
  1. a person who remains aloof or independent, especially from party politics; a bolter from the Republican party in 1884, a person who is independent (as in politics) or who remains undecided or neutral.

    Mugwump is an anglicized version of a word used by Massachusett Indians to mean “war leader.” The word was sometimes jestingly applied in early America to someone who was the “head guy.” The first political mugwumps were Republicans in the presidential race of 1884 who chose to support Democratic candidate Grover Cleveland rather than their own party’s nominee. Their independence prompted one 1930s humorist to define a mugwump as “a bird who sits with its mug on one side of the fence and its wump on the other.”


mid 19th cent.: from Algonquian mugquomp ‘great chief.’
obsolete slang mugwump kingpin, from Massachusett mugquomp, muggumquomp war leader
First Known Use: 1884


mugwump (noun)


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