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mugwumped

mugwumped is the simple past and past participle of mugwump.

Meaning of mugwump

Verb

mugwump (third-person singular simple present mugwumps, present participle mugwumping, simple past and past participle mugwumped)

  1. (US, intransitive) To behave like a mugwump.
  2. (US, intransitive) To purport to stay aloof and independent, especially from party politics.

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Questions about mugwumped

What is mugwumped the simple past and past participle of?
Mugwumped is the simple past and past participle of mugwump.

Words near mugwumped in the dictionary

  1. mugware
  2. mugweed
  3. mugwort
  4. mugworts
  5. mugwump
  6. mugwumped
  7. mugwumpery
  8. mugwumpian
  9. mugwumping
  10. mugwumpish
  11. mugwumpism

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mugwumped (page history and authors); mugwump (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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