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stumping up

stumping up is the present participle and gerund of stump up.

Meaning of stump up

Verb

stump up (third-person singular simple present stumps up, present participle stumping up, simple past and past participle stumped up)

  1. (UK, informal) To pay for something, often with reluctance.
    • Jim stumped up for the cinema tickets, but I paid for the coffees afterwards.

Questions about stumping up

What is stumping up the present participle and gerund of?
Stumping up is the present participle and gerund of stump up.

Words near stumping up in the dictionary

  1. stumpily
  2. stumpiness
  3. stumping
  4. stumping it
  5. stumping out
  6. stumping up
  7. stumpings
  8. stumpish
  9. stumpitis
  10. stumpknocker
  11. stumpknockers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stumping up (page history and authors); stump up (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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