mugwump

1. 1.

   someone who bolted from the Republican Party during the U.S. presidential election of 1884

   Broaderpolitician
2. 2.

   a neutral or uncommitted person (especially in politics)

   Synonymsindependentfencesitter

   Broaderindividualist

   politics

Other forms of mugwump

plural

mugwumps·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about mugwump

What does mugwump mean?

mugwump means "someone who bolted from the Republican Party during the U.S. presidential election of 1884". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in mugwump?

mugwump has 2 syllables: mu-gwump. The stress falls on "mu".

What is another word for mugwump?

Close synonyms include independent, fencesitter. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is mugwump a common word?

mugwump is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.