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stump
English
Etymology
From Middle English stumpe, stompe (“stump”), from or akin to Middle Low German stump (“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
- IPA(key): /st?mp/
- Rhymes: -?mp
Noun
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.
- (figuratively) 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.
- 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!'
- 1886, Henry James, The Princess Casamassima.
- (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.
- 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
Translations
Verb
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.
- (intransitive) To campaign.
- Synonym: campaign
- (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).
- 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.
Related terms
- stumped
Translations
See also
- stump up
Further reading
- stump in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- stump in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- stump at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- tumps
Danish
Adjective
stump (neuter stumpt, plural and definite singular attributive stumpe, comparative stumpere, superlative (predicative) stumpest, superlative (attributive) stumpeste)
- blunt
- en stump genstand
- a blunt instrument
- en stump genstand
- (geometry) obtuse
Derived terms
- (blunt): stump genstand
- (obtuse): stump trekant, stump vinkel, stumpvinklet
Noun
stump c (singular definite stumpen, plural indefinite stumper)
- stump, piece
- 2015, Haruki Murakami, Mænd uden kvinder, Klim ?ISBN
- 2015, Haruki Murakami, Mænd uden kvinder, Klim ?ISBN
Declension
Further reading
- “stump” in Den Danske Ordbog
- “stump” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog
Hunsrik
Etymology
From Middle High German stumpf, from late Old High German stumph, ultimately related to Proto-Germanic *stumpaz.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?tump/
Adjective
stump
- dull, blunt
Further reading
- Online Hunsrik Dictionary
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Old Norse stumpr and Middle Low German stump
Noun
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
- gatestump
References
- “stump” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Old Norse stumpr and Middle Low German stump
Noun
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
- gatestump
References
- “stump” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Swedish stumper, from Old Norse stumpr, from Proto-Germanic *stumpaz.
Noun
stump c
- stump; something which has been cut off or continuously shortened, such as a very short pencil
Declension
Derived terms
- fimp
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amaze
English
Etymology
From Middle English *amasen (“to bewilder, perplex”), from Old English ?masian (“to confuse, astonish”), from ?- (perfective prefix) + *masian (“to confound”), equivalent to a- +? maze.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /??me?z/
- Rhymes: -e?z
Verb
amaze (third-person singular simple present amazes, present participle amazing, simple past and past participle amazed)
- (transitive) To fill with wonder and surprise; to astonish, astound, surprise or perplex. [from 16th c.]
- 1759, Oliver Goldsmith, The Present State of Polite Learning
- Spain has long fallen from amazing Europe with her wit, to amusing them with the greatness of her Catholic credulity.
- 1759, Oliver Goldsmith, The Present State of Polite Learning
- (intransitive) To undergo amazement; to be astounded.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of B. Taylor to this entry?)
- (obsolete) To stupefy; to knock unconscious. [13th-17th c.]
- (obsolete) To bewilder; to stupefy; to bring into a maze.
- (obsolete) To terrify, to fill with panic. [16th-18th c.]
- , New York Review Books 2001, p.261:
- [Fear] amazeth many men that are to speak or show themselves in public assemblies, or before some great personages […]
- , New York Review Books 2001, p.261:
Related terms
- amazing
- amazement
Translations
Noun
amaze (uncountable)
- (now poetic) Amazement, astonishment. [from 16th c.]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.ii:
- All in amaze he suddenly vp start / With sword in hand, and with the old man went [...].
- 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska 2005, p. 103:
- Shattuck looked at him in amaze.
- 1985, Lawrence Durrell, Quinx, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 1361:
- She took the proffered cheque and stared at it with puzzled amaze, dazed by her own behaviour.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.ii:
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Alternative forms
- amize
Noun
amaze
- wonder, amazement
References
- Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN
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