stump

English

A large stump.

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”).

Cognate with Middle Dutch stomp (“stump”), Old High German stumph (“stump”) (German Stumpf), Old Norse stumpr (“stump”). More at stop.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stʌmp/

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• Rhymes: -ʌmp

Noun

stump (plural stumps)

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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 or occasion at which a campaign takes place; the husting.
3. (figurative) A place or occasion at which a person harangues or otherwise addresses a group in a manner suggesting political oration.
   • 1886, Henry James, The Princess Casamassima, London: Macmillan and Co.:

     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!'

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.
7. (slang, humorous) A leg.

   to stir one's stumps

8. A pin in a tumbler lock which forms an obstruction to throwing the bolt except when the gates of the tumblers are properly arranged, as by the key.
9. A pin or projection in a lock to form a guide for a movable piece.

Derived terms

• beyond the black stump
• black stump
• call it stumps
• chopping stump
• dumb as a stump
• gump stump
• gump-stump
• leg stump
• middle stump
• off stump
• on the stump
• pull up stumps
• rump and stump
• stir one's stumps
• stump and rump
• stump cam
• stump camera
• stump cutter
• stump detective
• stump dump
• stump grinder
• stump it
• stump orator
• stump out
• stump powder
• stumps
• stump speech
• stump-tailed macaque
• stump tracery
• stump-water
• stumpy
• take the stump
• this side of the black stump
• tree stump
• up a stump
• up the stump

 

Translations

remains of something that has been cut off

Arabic: جُذْمُور (juḏmūr), كُنَّاشَة (kunnāša) Armenian: (tree stump) կոճղ (hy) (kočġ) Assamese: মুঢ়া (murha) Azerbaijani: kötük (az) Belarusian: пень m (pjenʹ) Breton: penngef m, souch m Bulgarian: пън (bg) (pǎn) Catalan: soca (ca) f, monyó (ca) m Cherokee: ᎤᏂᏡᎬᎢ (unitlugvi) Chinese: Mandarin: 樹樁／树桩 (zh) (shùzhuāng), 樹墩／树墩 (zh) (shùdūn) Czech: pařez (cs) m, pahýl (cs) m Dutch: stomp (nl) Esperanto: stumpo (eo) Estonian: könt, känd (et) Fakkanci: ɘ̄r-kìŋg Finnish: tynkä (fi); kanto (fi) (of a tree) French: souche (fr) f, moignon (fr) m Galician: cepa f, touzo m, toco (gl) m, cozo (gl) m, couce (gl) f, raigoto m, cachopo (gl) m Georgian: please add this translation if you can German: Stumpf (de) m, Stubben m Greek: Ancient: στύπος n (stúpos), τομή f (tomḗ), (tree stump) πρέμνον n (prémnon) Hebrew: גֶּדֶם (he) m (gédem) Ingrian: kanto Interlingua: stirpe Irish: stoc m Italian: moncherino (it) m, ceppo (it) m Japanese: 切り株 (ja) (きりかぶ, kirikabu) Korean: 그루터기 (geuruteogi) Latgalian: calms m Latvian: celms (lv) m Lezgi: пун (pun) Lithuanian: kelmas m Macedonian: пенушка f (penuška), чкунка f (čkunka) Maori: tumu, mutumutu (of a limb), niho more (of a tooth), tumu, kōtumu Mongolian: Cyrillic: хожуул (mn) (xožuul) (tree stump) Mongolian: ᠬᠣᠵᠤᠤᠯ᠎ᠠ (qoǰuul-a) Norwegian: Bokmål: stump (no) m Old English: stubb m Piedmontese: sep m Polish: (of a limb) kikut (pl) m; (of a tree) karpina f, karpowina f, pieniek m, pniak m, pień m Portuguese: toco (pt) m, cotoco m Romanian: ciot (ro) n Russian: пень (ru) m (penʹ) (tree), пенёк (ru) m (penjók) (diminutive), обру́бок (ru) m (obrúbok), культя́ (ru) f (kulʹtjá) (limb), огры́зок (ru) m (ogrýzok) (pencil), обло́мок (ru) m (oblómok), ога́рок (ru) m (ogárok) (candle) Scottish Gaelic: stob m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: пањ m Roman: panj (sh) m Slovak: peň m, pahýľ m, kýpeť m Slovene: štor (sl) m Spanish: tocón (es) m, tueco m (tree), muñón m (arm, leg or tail), raíz f (tooth), punta final f (pencil), cabo m (candle), tueca f (tree), raigón (es) m (tooth) Swahili: kisiki (sw) Swedish: stump (sv) c, stubbe (sv) c (of a tree) Tagalog: tuod Tarifit: tiyyart f ((of a tree)) Tausug: tunggul Turkish: kütük (tr) Udmurt: лӥял (lijal) (of a tree) Ukrainian: пень m (penʹ) Venetan: talpón m (of a tree) Welsh: boncyff (cy) m, wystn m Yiddish: פּניאַק m (pnyak)

politics: place where campaigning takes place

Bulgarian: трибуна (bg) f (tribuna) Finnish: kenttä (fi), vaalikenttä

politics: act of campaigning

Bulgarian: кампания (bg) f (kampanija) Finnish: kampanjatilaisuus

cricket: one of the three vertical wooden posts in the wicket

Finnish: keppi (fi) Scottish Gaelic: stob m Spanish: estaca (es) f

drawing: artist's tool

Catalan: esfumí m Chinese: Mandarin: 擦筆／擦笔 (cābǐ) Czech: těrka f Dutch: doezelaar (nl) French: estompe (fr) f German: Estompe m Italian: sfumino (it) m Occitan: estompa f Portuguese: esfuminho m

pole supporting a house

Finnish: paalu (fi) Spanish: poste (es) m

slang: leg

Bulgarian: крак (bg) m (krak) Finnish: tolppa (fi) Macedonian: нога (mk) f (noga) Romanian: ciotoi n

pin in a tumbler lock

pin or projection in a lock to form a guide for a movable piece

Verb

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

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

   This last question has me stumped.

3. (intransitive) To campaign.

   Synonym: campaign

   He’s been stumping for that reform for months.

4. (transitive, US, colloquial) To travel over (a state, a district, etc.) giving speeches for electioneering purposes.
5. (transitive, cricket, of a wicket keeper) To get a batsman out stumped.
6. (transitive, cricket) To bowl down the stumps of (a wicket).
   • 1847, Alfred Tennyson, “Prologue”, in The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:

     A herd of boys with clamour bowled, / And stumped the wicket.

7. (intransitive) To walk heavily or clumsily, plod, trudge.
8. (transitive) To reduce to a stump; to truncate or cut off a part of.
9. (transitive) To strike unexpectedly; to stub, as the toe against something fixed.

Conjugation

infinitive	(to) stump
	present tense	past tense
1st-person singular	stump	stumped
2nd-person singular	stump, stumpest†	stumped, stumpedst†
3rd-person singular	stumps, stumpeth†	stumped
plural	stump
subjunctive	stump	stumped
imperative	stump	—
participles	stumping	stumped

Conjugation of stump

^†Archaic or obsolete.

Related terms

• stumped

Translations

to baffle or confuse

Bulgarian: озадачавам (bg) (ozadačavam) Chinese: Mandarin: 难住 (zh) (nánzhù) Czech: vyvést z míry pf Finnish: hämmentää (fi), sekoittaa (fi) German: ratlos sein, verblüfft sein, mit seiner Weisheit am Ende sein Maori: whakahanepī Turkish: afallamak (tr)

to campaign

Bulgarian: водя кампания (vodja kampanija) Finnish: kampanjoida (fi)

to get a batsman out stumped

to walk heavily or clumsily

Czech: plahočit se (cs) impf, vléci se impf, belhat se impf, těžce našlapovat impf, trmácet se (cs) impf Swedish: stövla (sv)

See also

• stump up

Further reading

• “stump”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “stump”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “stump”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• tumps

Danish

Etymology

From Middle Low German stump, from Old Saxon *stump, from Proto-West Germanic *stump, from Proto-Germanic *stumpaz.

Adjective

stump (neuter stumpt, plural and definite singular attributive stumpe, comparative stumpere, superlative (predicative) stumpest, superlative (attributive) stumpeste)

1. blunt

   en stump genstand

   a blunt instrument

2. (geometry) obtuse

Derived terms

• (blunt): stump genstand
• (obtuse): stump trekant, stump vinkel, stumpvinklet

Noun

stump c (singular definite stumpen, plural indefinite stumper)

1. stump, piece
   • 2015, Haruki Murakami, Mænd uden kvinder, Klim, →ISBN:

     Det eneste, der er tilbage, er en gammel stump viskelæder og sømændenes fjerne klagesange.

     All that is left is an old piece of an eraser and the distant elegies of the sailors.

Declension

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	stump	stumpen	stumper	stumperne
genitive	stumps	stumpens	stumpers	stumpernes

Declension of stump

Further reading

• “stump” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “stump” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Hunsrik

Etymology

From Middle High German stumpf, from late Old High German stumph, from Proto-West Germanic *stump, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *stumpaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃtump/

Adjective

stump

1. dull, blunt

Further reading

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse stumpr and Middle Low German stump.

Noun

stump m (definite singular stumpen, indefinite plural stumper, definite plural stumpene)

1. a stub, stump, bit, fragment, piece, butt (of cigar, cigarette)
2. (humorous) buttocks, little scamp, tiny tot

Derived terms

• gatestump

References

• “stump” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse stumpr and Middle Low German stump.

Noun

stump m (definite singular stumpen, indefinite plural stumpar, definite plural stumpane)

1. a stub, stump, bit, fragment, piece, butt (of cigar, cigarette)
2. (humorous) buttocks, little scamp, tiny tot

Derived terms

• gatestump

References

• “stump” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish stumper, from Old Norse stumpr, from Proto-Germanic *stumpaz.

Noun

stump c

1. a stump (something which has been cut off or continuously shortened, like for example as a very short pencil or what is left of a cut-off finger)

Declension

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

Declension of stump

Derived terms

• benstump
• cigarettstump
• cigarrstump
• fimp
• gatstump
• ljusstump
• pennstump
• repstump
• snörstump
• stumpa
• svansstump
• vägstump

 

References

• stump in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• stump in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• stump in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• stump in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)