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Page 6 of 7 < 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 > Topic Options #181521 - 01/07/09 03:16 AM Re: Blackbird fly ! [Re: PastorVon] Zed Pooh-Bah Registered: 08/27/02 Posts: 2031 Loc: British Columbia, Canada AHA! I knew someone else out there had heard of mugwumps! Top #181529 - 01/07/09 11:08 AM Re: Blackbird fly ! [Re: Zed] PastorVon member Registered: 12/30/08 Posts: 106 Loc: USA, North Carolina Well, it may not endear the culprit to hoi polloi; but it is certainly a less uncomfortable way to straddle a fence. Top #181540 - 01/07/09 01:15 PM Re: Blackbird fly ! [Re: Zed] LukeJavan8 old hand Registered: 06/23/08 Posts: 830 Loc: Land of Flat River Originally Posted By: Zed AHA! I knew someone else out there had heard of mugwumps! mugwumps: originally mogkiomp in the native Massachusset dialect of the Algonquian meaning "great man", (mogki - "great", omp - "man"). So a person of status. Top #181541 - 01/07/09 01:17 PM Re: Blackbird fly ! [Re: LukeJavan8] LukeJavan8 old hand Registered: 06/23/08 Posts: 830 Loc: Land of Flat River Little did I ever know that when my grandmother (herself, Native American) called her dog mugwump, it was actually a compliment to the little pooch. Top #181542 - 01/07/09 01:58 PM Re: Blackbird fly ! [Re: LukeJavan8] BranShea Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/23/06 Posts: 3387 Loc: Netherlands, the Hague I looked up this new to me word 'mugwump' and the various definitions did not make quite clear to me: does the word mean someone who can't decide which side to choose or someone who stands firm against the mainstream? Top #181550 - 01/07/09 06:10 PM Re: Blackbird fly ! [Re: BranShea] tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Registered: 04/03/00 Posts: 9400 Loc: this too shall pass Quinion: mugwump (notice link to 'bated breath' on the right) Top #181552 - 01/07/09 08:30 PM Re: Blackbird fly ! [Re: PastorVon] Faldage Carpal Tunnel Registered: 12/01/00 Posts: 12381 Originally Posted By: PastorVon Well, it may not endear the culprit to hoi polloi; but it is certainly a less uncomfortable way to straddle a fence. Hoi polloi is nominative plural. Following the preposition to it should be dative plural, tois pollois. Top #181553 - 01/07/09 08:37 PM Re: hic, hic ! [sic] [Re: Faldage] zmjezhd Pooh-Bah Registered: 08/13/05 Posts: 2270 Loc: R'lyeh Following the preposition to it should be dative plural Audite, audite! Top #181561 - 01/08/09 04:49 AM Re: Blackbird fly ! [Re: tsuwm] BranShea Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/23/06 Posts: 3387 Loc: Netherlands, the Hague Originally Posted By: tsuwm Quinion: mugwump (notice link to 'bated breath' on the right) Good site! "Hence the old joke that a mugwump is a person sitting on the fence, with his mug on one side and his wump on the other." So, synonimous to fence sitter. Also new to me. turncoat, turncloack. And wump is multi-interpretable I assume. Top #181588 - 01/09/09 02:51 AM Re: Blackbird fly ! [Re: BranShea] Zed Pooh-Bah Registered: 08/27/02 Posts: 2031 Loc: British Columbia, Canada Baby talk (w for r) version of rump or backside. Top Page 6 of 7 < 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 > Previous Topic Index Next Topic Preview Hop to: General Topics ------   Information and announcements   Q&A about words   Wordplay and fun   Words and languages in schools   Miscellany   Weekly Themes   Looking for (writers, speakers, ...) (Old) Weekly themes. (have been consolidated into a single forum above) ------   Words from medicine   Beheading words   Meta-words   Words from classical mythology   Animal Safari   Words with unusual etymologies   Eponyms or words derived from people's names.   Loanwords from German   English as a global language Print Topic Switch to Threaded Mode View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM View homepage Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM View homepage Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM View homepage Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM View homepage Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM View homepage Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts Forum Stats 7151 Members 16 Forums 12706 Topics 187591 Posts Max Online: 853 @ 10/23/07 11:39 AM Who's Online 0 registered (), 12 Guests and 23 Spiders online. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Newest Members Crejella, larsrc, KIDDETROIT, marksonamor, poetree 7151 Registered Users Top Posters wwh 13858 Faldage 12381 Jackie 10232 tsuwm 9400 Buffalo Shrdlu 6595 AnnaStrophic 6481 Wordwind 6296 of troy 5400 maverick 4683 WhitmanO'Neill 4186 November Su M Tu W Th F Sa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30

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