stump
/stʌmp/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.45 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The remains of something that has been cut off; especially the remains of a tree, the remains of a limb.
noun
The place or occasion at which a campaign takes place; the husting.
noun
A place or occasion at which a person harangues or otherwise addresses a group in a manner suggesting political oration.
noun
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.
Example Sentences
- "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!'"
- "to stir one's stumps"
- "This last question has me stumped."
- "He’s been stumping for that reform for months."
- "Freedom was in the air this spring, when millionaire philosopher Ivan Kramberger stumped the countryside on a platform of Slovenian independence and social welfare."
- "A herd of boys with clamour bowled, / And stumped the wicket."
Etymology
From Middle English stumpe, stompe (“stump”), from or akin to Middle Low German stump (“stump”) or Middle Dutch stomp, from Old Saxon or Old Dutch *stump, from Proto-West Germanic *stump, from Proto-Germanic *stumpaz (“stump, blunt, part cut off”). Displaced native Old English stofn. Cognate with Middle Dutch stomp (“stump”), Old High German stumph (“stump”) (German Stumpf), Old Norse stumpr (“stump”). More at stop.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /stʌmp/
- British English: /stʌmp/
Usage
Inflected Forms
stumps (plural)
stumps (present, singular)
stumping (participle, present)
stumped (participle, past)
stumped (past)
no-table-tags (table tags)
glossary (inflection template)
stumped (first person, past)
stumpest (archaic, present)
stumped (past, second person)
stumpedst (archaic, past)
stumpeth (archaic, present)