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Mugwump

Mugwump Meaning & Definition
Mugwump Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Mugwump?

[n] a neutral or uncommitted person (especially in politics)
[n] someone who bolted from the Republican Party during the U.S. presidential election of 1884

Synonyms | Synonyms for Mugwump: independent

Related Terms | Find terms related to Mugwump: anythingarian | apostate | backslider | backwardness | big boy | big chief | big shot | bigwig | bolter | collaborationist | collaborator | convert | defector | deserter | dilatoriness | Fabian policy | fence-sitter | fifth columnist | free lance | free spirit | free trader | freethinker | heavyweight | hesitation | high-muck-a-muck | hold-off | independent | individualist | isolationist | jellyfish | latitudinarian | laxness | leader | liberal | libertarian | libertine | lion | Micawberism | Milquetoast | nabob | neuter | neutral | nonpartisan | nothingarian | procrastination | proselyte | quisling | recidivist | recreant | remissness | renegade | renegado | renegate | reversionist | rugged individualist | runagate | schismatic | seceder | secessionist | separatist | shilly-shally | slackness | slowness | stall | strikebreaker | swing vote | temporization | tergiversant | tergiversator | third force | third world | traitor | turnabout | turncoat | turntail | uncommitted voter | waverer | weakling | wobbler

See Also | individualist | pol | political leader | politician | politico

Mugwump In Webster's Dictionary

\Mug"wump`\, n. [Cf. Algonquin mugquomp a chief.] A bolter from the Republican party in the national election of 1884; an Independent. [Political Cant, U.S.]

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