mugwump
noun
a Republican who refused to support the party nominee, James G. Blaine, in the presidential campaign of 1884.
mugwumpish
-
a word derived from
mugwump.
Example Sentences
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I confess to feeling somewhat "mugwumpish" myself that morning, for it was pretty plain that I never could lead the Republican party in that house, as long as Addison was about.
From When Life Was Young At the Old Farm in Maine by C. A. (Charles Asbury) Stephens
