stump
English edit
Etymology edit
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 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 edit
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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 edit
Translations edit
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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
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 edit
common gender |
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, ultimately related to 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 |