'Mugwump' definitions:
Definition of 'Mugwump'
(from WordNet)
noun
Someone who bolted from the Republican Party during the U.S. presidential election of 1884
noun
A neutral or uncommitted person (especially in politics) [syn: mugwump, independent, fencesitter]
Definition of 'mugwump'
From: GCIDE
- mugwump \mug"wump`\, n. [Cf. Algonquin mugquomp a chief.]
- 1. A bolter from the Republican party in the national election of 1884; an Independent. [Political Cant, U.S.] [1913 Webster]
- 2. A person who is undecided about an issue, especially a political one; a person who takes a neutral stance on an issue; a fence-sitter. [PJC] Mugwumpery
Synonyms of 'mugwump'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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