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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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hoodwink
English
Etymology
The verb is derived from hood (“head covering attached to a larger garment such as a jacket or cloak”) +? wink (“to close one’s eyes”).
The noun is derived from the verb.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?h?dw??k/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?h?d?w??k/
- Hyphenation: hood?wink
Verb
hoodwink (third-person singular simple present hoodwinks, present participle hoodwinking, simple past and past participle hoodwinked)
- (transitive, archaic) To cover the eyes with, or as if with, a hood; to blindfold. [from mid 16th c.]
- (transitive, figuratively)
- To deceive using a disguise; to bewile, dupe, mislead.
- (archaic) To hide or obscure.
- To deceive using a disguise; to bewile, dupe, mislead.
- (intransitive, obsolete, rare) To close the eyes.
Conjugation
Derived terms
- hoodwinkable
- hoodwinked (adjective)
- hoodwinker
- hoodwinking (noun)
Translations
Noun
hoodwink (countable and uncountable, plural hoodwinks)
- (countable) An act of hiding from sight, or something that cloaks or hides another thing from view.
- (Britain, games, obsolete, uncountable) The game of blind man's buff.
- Synonym: (obsolete) hoodman-blind
Translations
References
Further reading
- hoodwink (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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