mugwump – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
mugwump
n.
politician who flaunts his independence; bolter of the Republican Party during the United States presidential election of 1884; politically neutral or uncommitted person
Mugwumps
Mugwump
Noun
1. someone who bolted from the Republican Party during the U.S. presidential election of 1884
(hypernym) politician, politico, pol, political leader
mugwump
Noun
1. a neutral or uncommitted person (especially in politics)
(synonym) independent, fencesitter
(hypernym) individualist
(classification) politics, political science, government
Mugwump
(n.)
A bolter from the Republican party in the national election of 1884; an Independent.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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mugwump
Synonyms and related words:
Fabian policy, Micawberism, Milquetoast, anythingarian, apostate, backslider, backwardness, big boy, big chief, big shot, bigwig, bolter, collaborationist, collaborator, convert, defector, deserter, dilatoriness, 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, 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
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
