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mugwumping

mugwumping is the present participle and gerund 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 mugwumping

What is mugwumping the present participle and gerund of?
Mugwumping is the present participle and gerund of mugwump.

Words near mugwumping in the dictionary

  1. mugworts
  2. mugwump
  3. mugwumped
  4. mugwumpery
  5. mugwumpian
  6. mugwumping
  7. mugwumpish
  8. mugwumpism
  9. mugwumpisms
  10. mugwumps
  11. muh

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mugwumping (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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