英语词汇mugwump的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

mugwump. The term for great chief in Algonquin Indian di- alect sounded like “mugquomp” to settlers in what is now the northeastern U.S. and soon came to mean any pompous “big shot,” its spelling altered to a simpler mugwump. A century later mugwump took on another meaning in politics when regular Republicans attached it to those Republicans who bolted the party to support Democrat Grover Cleveland, instead of the corrupt James Blaine. Since then any party member who doesn’t accept the party leadership and supports the opposition is called a mugwump.

词汇	mugwump
词源	mugwump. The term for great chief in Algonquin Indian di- alect sounded like “mugquomp” to settlers in what is now the northeastern U.S. and soon came to mean any pompous “big shot,” its spelling altered to a simpler mugwump. A century later mugwump took on another meaning in politics when regular Republicans attached it to those Republicans who bolted the party to support Democrat Grover Cleveland, instead of the corrupt James Blaine. Since then any party member who doesn’t accept the party leadership and supports the opposition is called a mugwump.
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