Tamara asked:
1) Are you familiar with the word (and how/from whom did you learn it)?
2) What does it mean to *you*?
3) Where are you in the US (or, where did your source come from)?
Have been familiar with the term since High School (Over 55 yrs ago) Amer.
History Course, with it's political meaning . Have always thought it held a
connotation of indecision, but mainly the mudwumps disapproved of Blain's
"dishonest" politics, and bolted the Republican party to vote for the
Democratic candidate, Grover Cleveland. As always, when a party splits, the
other party wins, although in 1884 the electorial votes were very close.
I heard the fence definition ("sitting on a fence"; the "mug" (face) being
on one side of it, and the "wump"
(rump) on the other.) when I was very young, from my older brother who is a
great punster. I do not think it is confined to the "South"
Louise in Central Virginia
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