stump
English
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Etymology
[edit]From Middle English stumpe, stompe (“stump”), from or akin to Middle Low German stump (“stump”) or Middle Dutch stomp, from Old Saxon or Old Dutch *stump, from Proto-West Germanic *stump, from Proto-Germanic *stumpaz (“stump, blunt, part cut off”).
Cognate with Middle Dutch stomp (“stump”), Old High German stumph (“stump”) (German Stumpf), Old Norse stumpr (“stump”). More at stop.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]stump (plural stumps)
- The remains of something that has been cut off; especially the remains of a tree, the remains of a limb.
- (politics) The place or occasion at which a campaign takes place; the husting.
- (figurative) A place or occasion at which a person harangues or otherwise addresses a group in a manner suggesting political oration.
- 1886, Henry James, The Princess Casamassima, London: Macmillan and Co.:
- Paul Muniment had taken hold of Hyacinth, and said, 'I'll trouble you to stay, you little desperado. I'll be blowed if I ever expected to see you on the stump!'
- (cricket) One of three small wooden posts which together with the bails make the wicket and that the fielding team attempt to hit with the ball.
- (drawing) An artists’ drawing tool made of rolled paper used to smudge or blend marks made with charcoal, Conté crayon, pencil or other drawing media.
- A wooden or concrete pole used to support a house.
- (slang, humorous) A leg.
- to stir one's stumps
- A pin in a tumbler lock which forms an obstruction to throwing the bolt except when the gates of the tumblers are properly arranged, as by the key.
- A pin or projection in a lock to form a guide for a movable piece.
Derived terms
[edit]- beyond the black stump
- black stump
- call it stumps
- chopping stump
- dumb as a stump
- gump stump
- gump-stump
- leg stump
- middle stump
- off stump
- on the stump
- pull up stumps
- rump and stump
- stir one's stumps
- stump and rump
- stump cam
- stump camera
- stump cutter
- stump detective
- stump dump
- stump grinder
- stump it
- stump orator
- stump out
- stump powder
- stumps
- stump speech
- stump-tailed macaque
- stump tracery
- stump-water
- stumpy
- take the stump
- this side of the black stump
- tree stump
- up a stump
- up the stump
Translations
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Verb
[edit]stump (third-person singular simple present stumps, present participle stumping, simple past and past participle stumped)
- (transitive, informal) To stop, confuse, or puzzle.
- (intransitive, informal) To baffle; to make unable to find an answer to a question or problem.
- This last question has me stumped.
- (intransitive) To campaign.
- Synonym: campaign
- He’s been stumping for that reform for months.
- (transitive, US, colloquial) To travel over (a state, a district, etc.) giving speeches for electioneering purposes.
- (transitive, cricket, of a wicket keeper) To get a batsman out stumped.
- (transitive, cricket) To bowl down the stumps of (a wicket).
- 1847, Alfred Tennyson, “Prologue”, in The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:
- A herd of boys with clamour bowled, / And stumped the wicket.
- (intransitive) To walk heavily or clumsily, plod, trudge.
- (transitive) To reduce to a stump; to truncate or cut off a part of.
- (transitive) To strike unexpectedly; to stub, as the toe against something fixed.
Conjugation
[edit]infinitive | (to) stump | ||
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present tense | past tense | ||
1st-person singular | stump | stumped | |
2nd-person singular | stump, stumpest† | stumped, stumpedst† | |
3rd-person singular | stumps, stumpeth† | stumped | |
plural | stump | ||
subjunctive | stump | stumped | |
imperative | stump | — | |
participles | stumping | stumped |
Related terms
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See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “stump”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “stump”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “stump”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Anagrams
[edit]Danish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle Low German stump, from Old Saxon *stump, from Proto-West Germanic *stump, from Proto-Germanic *stumpaz.
Adjective
[edit]stump (neuter stumpt, plural and definite singular attributive stumpe, comparative stumpere, superlative (predicative) stumpest, superlative (attributive) stumpeste)
Derived terms
[edit]- (blunt): stump genstand
- (obtuse): stump trekant, stump vinkel, stumpvinklet
Noun
[edit]stump c (singular definite stumpen, plural indefinite stumper)
- stump, piece
- 2015, Haruki Murakami, Mænd uden kvinder, Klim, →ISBN:
- Det eneste, der er tilbage, er en gammel stump viskelæder og sømændenes fjerne klagesange.
- All that is left is an old piece of an eraser and the distant elegies of the sailors.
Declension
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Singular | Plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | stump | stumpen | stumper | stumperne |
genitive | stumps | stumpens | stumpers | stumpernes |
Further reading
[edit]Hunsrik
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle High German stumpf, from late Old High German stumph, from Proto-West Germanic *stump, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *stumpaz.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]stump
Further reading
[edit]Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Norse stumpr and Middle Low German stump.
Noun
[edit]stump m (definite singular stumpen, indefinite plural stumper, definite plural stumpene)
- a stub, stump, bit, fragment, piece, butt (of cigar, cigarette)
- (humorous) buttocks, little scamp, tiny tot
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “stump” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Norse stumpr and Middle Low German stump.
Noun
[edit]stump m (definite singular stumpen, indefinite plural stumpar, definite plural stumpane)
- a stub, stump, bit, fragment, piece, butt (of cigar, cigarette)
- (humorous) buttocks, little scamp, tiny tot
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “stump” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Swedish stumper, from Old Norse stumpr, from Proto-Germanic *stumpaz.
Noun
[edit]stump c
- a stump (something which has been cut off or continuously shortened, like for example as a very short pencil or what is left of a cut-off finger)
Declension
[edit]Declension of stump | ||||
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Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | stump | stumpen | stumpar | stumparna |
Genitive | stumps | stumpens | stumpars | stumparnas |
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- stump in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- stump in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- stump in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
- stump in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)
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