单词 | mugwumpery |
释义 | mugwumperyn. Chiefly North American. Behaviour or qualities characteristic of a mugwump. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > [noun] > non-party positions straddlec1842 personalism1875 freelancing1879 mugwumpery1885 mugwumpism1886 rotativist1907 personalismo1936 1885 Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 13 Apr. 2/2 Will E. Haskell of the Minneapolis Tribune says that ‘Previousness is one of the worst characteristics of Mugwumpery’. 1934 P. Donner Let. in M. Gilbert Winston S. Churchill V. 591 People in the North responded with such enthusiasm to the stand you have made..even though local members of Parliament failed for reasons of mugwumpery to emerge from their lairs. 1948 Daily Ardmoreite (Ardmore, Okla.) 29 Apr. 1/1 They think this year will see a widespread exercise of the privilege of mugwumpery. 1971 N. Barber War of Running Dogs xiii. 140 The trouble (has been) not only murder but mugwumpery. 1999 National Jrnl. (Electronic ed.) 21 Aug. His philosophy is pure Mugwumpery—let's depoliticize politics. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1885 |
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