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Definition of Mugwump
1. Noun. Someone who bolted from the Republican Party during the U.S. presidential election of 1884.
2. Noun. A neutral or uncommitted person (especially in politics).
Category relationships: Government, Political Science, Politics
Generic synonyms: Individualist
Definition of Mugwump
1. n. A bolter from the Republican party in the national election of 1884; an Independent.
Definition of Mugwump
1. Noun. (American English) An independent neutral politician, ''especially'' in reference to the 1884 U.S. presidential election. ¹
2. Noun. (American English) A small, ferocious creature ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Mugwump
1. a political independent [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mugwump
Literary usage of Mugwump
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 by James Ford Rhodes (1919)
"The "bolters" assumed with pride the name of "mugwump"3 which was given them in
derision and their work is known in history as the "mugwump revolt" and the ..."
2. Sharps and Flats by Eugene Field (1900)
"THE SONG OF THE mugwump THE mugwump sat on a hickory limb, "Too-hoo!" In the
autumn twilight, dank and dim, "Too-hoo!" When, coming along, a Democrat heard ..."
3. A History of the Presidency by Edward Stanwood (1898)
"XXVII THE mugwump CAMPAIGN ,7 THERE has never been a time in the history of the
country when party lines were so indistinct, and • so easily and frequently ..."
4. Recent History of the United States by Frederic Logan Paxson (1921)
"CHAPTER IX THE mugwump CAMPAIGN, 1884 JOHN G. CARLISLE, a Democratic Congressman
elected from Kentucky in 1876, \vas cho^^Speaker of the House of Tariff and ..."
5. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Eugene Field by Eugene Field, Roswell Martin Field, Horace (1911)
"THE SONG OF THE mugwump THE mugwump sat on a hickory limb, "Too-hoo!" In the
autumn twilight, dank and dim, "Too-hoo!" When, coming along, a Democrat heard ..."
6. History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 by James Ford Rhodes (1919)
"The "bolters" assumed with pride the name of "mugwump"3 which was given them in
derision and their work is known in history as the "mugwump revolt" and the ..."
7. Sharps and Flats by Eugene Field (1900)
"THE SONG OF THE mugwump THE mugwump sat on a hickory limb, "Too-hoo!" In the
autumn twilight, dank and dim, "Too-hoo!" When, coming along, a Democrat heard ..."
8. A History of the Presidency by Edward Stanwood (1898)
"XXVII THE mugwump CAMPAIGN ,7 THERE has never been a time in the history of the
country when party lines were so indistinct, and • so easily and frequently ..."
9. Recent History of the United States by Frederic Logan Paxson (1921)
"CHAPTER IX THE mugwump CAMPAIGN, 1884 JOHN G. CARLISLE, a Democratic Congressman
elected from Kentucky in 1876, \vas cho^^Speaker of the House of Tariff and ..."
10. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Eugene Field by Eugene Field, Roswell Martin Field, Horace (1911)
"THE SONG OF THE mugwump THE mugwump sat on a hickory limb, "Too-hoo!" In the
autumn twilight, dank and dim, "Too-hoo!" When, coming along, a Democrat heard ..."
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