What is "mugwump"

Usage examples of "mugwump".

The Mugwump Man comes with alabaster jars of fluid and the Reptiles get smoothed out.

The boy looks into Mugwump eyes blank as obsidian mirrors, pools of black blood, glory holes in a toilet wall closing on the Last Erection.

The Mugwump sidles around the boy goosing him and caressing his genitals in hieroglyphs of mockery.

Suddenly the Mugwump pushes the boy forward into space, free of his cock.

In one office, Near East Exquisitries on a green brass plaque, the Mugwump is catching termites with his long black tongue.

I was puzzled to know how to try to help Mason, and, at the same time, save my mugwump purity undefiled.

It might not be quite delicate for a mugwump to approach the President directly, but I could approach him indirectly, with all delicacy, since in that case not even courtesy would require him to take notice of an application which no one could prove had ever reached him.

I wrote the little child, and said to her all that I have just been saying about mugwump principles and the limitations which they put upon me.

If I may refer to an institution, which used to be midway between the North and the South, and which I may speak of without suspicion of bias, an institution where the studies of metaphysics, the philosophy of history, the classics and pure science are as much insisted on as the study of applied sciences, the College of New Jersey at Princeton, the question in regard to a candidate for a professorship or instructorship, is not whether he was born North or South, whether he served in one army or another or in neither, whether he is a Democrat or a Republican or a Mugwump, what religious denomination he belongs to, but is he a scholar and has he a high character?

Being a Mugwump, the mere name of a party holds no superstitious sway over my imagination.

His interest in politics was the academic interest of the typical Mugwump he had confessed himself to be, and too much confined to an occasional vote of protest.

This group constituted a sort of mugwump element that voted independently on every party question and that tried to rouse the Conservatives from their party prejudices and narrow leanings.

Schurz and the others, however, held a Liberty Congress at Indianapolis, at which they called on Reed to be their candidate, but neither Reed nor anyone else wanted the vain task of leading a mugwump party.

During the biennial Panics when the raw, pealed Dream Police storm the City, the Mugwumps take refuge in the deepest crevices of the wall sealing themselves in clay cubicles and remain for weeks in biostasis.

Unfortunately, the ideas of the revolutionary Wagner of 1848 are taught neither by the education nor the experience of English and American gentlemen-amateurs, who are almost always political mugwumps, and hardly ever associate with revolutionists.