stump

English

Etymology

From Middle English stumpe, stompe (“stump”), from or akin to Middle Low German stump (“stump”), from Proto-Germanic *stumpaz (“stump, blunt, part cut off”), from Proto-Indo-European *stÁb(h)-, *stemb(h)- (“to support, stamp, become angry, be astonished”). Cognate with Middle Dutch stomp (“stump”), Old High German stumph (German Stumpf, “stump”), Old Norse stumpr (“stump”). More at stop.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /stʌmp/
• Rhymes: -ʌmp

Noun

stump (plural stumps)

Wikipedia

1. The remains of something that has been cut off; especially the remains of a tree, the remains of a limb.
2. (politics) The place where a campaign takes place.
3. (politics) An occasion at which the campaign takes place.
4. (cricket) 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.
5. (drawing) An artists’ drawing tool made of rolled paper used to smudge or blend marks made with charcoal, Conté crayon, pencil or other drawing media.
6. A wooden or concrete pole used to support a house.

Derived terms

• stumps
• pull up stumps
• on the stump
• take the stump

Translations

remains of something that has been cut off

Armenian: (tree stump) կոճղ (hy) (koč̣ġ) Bosnian: panj (bs) m. Czech: pařez (cs) m. Estonian: könt (et) Finnish: tynkä (fi), kanto (fi) French: souche (fr) f., moignon (fr) m. German: Stumpf (de) m. Irish: stoc (ga) m. Korean: 그루터기 (geuruteogi) Macedonian: пенушка (mk) (pénuška) f. Polish: (of a limb) kikut (pl) m.; (of a tree) karpina f., karpowina f., pniak m., pień m.

Russian: пень (ru) (p'en') m. Scottish Gaelic: stob (gd) m. Serbian: Cyrillic: пањ m. Roman: panj m. Slovene: štor (sl) m. Spanish: tocón m. (tree), muñón m. (arm, leg or tail) raíz f. (tooth), punta final f. (pencil), cabo m. (candle) Swahili: kisiki (sw) Swedish: stump (sv) c.

politics: place where campaigning takes place

politics: act of campaigning

cricket: wooden post forming part of the wicket

Scottish Gaelic: stob (gd) m. Spanish: estaca (es) f.

Swahili: kisiki (sw)

drawing: artist's tool

French: estompe (fr) f.

pole supporting a house

Finnish: paalu (fi)

Verb

stump (third-person singular simple present stumps, present participle stumping, simple past and past participle stumped)

1. (transitive) to stop, confuse, or puzzle
2. (intransitive) to baffle; to be unable to find an answer to a question or problem.

   This last question has me stumped.

3. (intransitive) to campaign

   He’s been stumping for that reform for months.

4. (transitive, cricket, of a wicket keeper) to get a batsman out stumped
5. (intransitive) to walk heavily or clumsily, plod, trudge

Related terms

• stumped

Translations

to baffle or confuse

Finnish: hämmentää (fi), sekoittaa (fi)

Swahili: kisiki (sw)

to campaign

Finnish: kampanjoida (fi)

Swahili: kisiki (sw)

to get a batsman out stumped

Swahili: kisiki (sw)

to walk heavily or clumsily

Swahili: kisiki (sw)

See also

• stump up

External links

• stump in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• stump in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• stump at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• tumps

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Swedish

Noun

stump c.

1. stump; something which has been cut off or continuously shortened, such as a very short pencil

Declension

Declension of stump

	singular		plural
Common	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	stump	stumpen	stumpar	stumparna
genitive	stumps	stumpens	stumpars	stumparnas

Derived terms

• fimp