stump
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
cricket
games
government
hobbies
lifestyle
politics
sports
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.
Inflected forms:
form: stumps
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: stumps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: stumping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: stumped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: stumped
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: stump
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: stump
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: stumped
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: stump
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: stumpest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: stumped
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: stumpedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: stumps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: stumpeth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: stumped
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: stump
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: stumped
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: stump
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: stumped
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: stump
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: stumping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: stumped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
Senses:
gloss: The remains of something that has been cut off; especially the remains of a tree, the remains of a limb.
pos: noun
gloss: The place or occasion at which a campaign takes place; the husting.
pos: noun
gloss: A place or occasion at which a person harangues or otherwise addresses a group in a manner suggesting political oration.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: 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!'
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
gloss: An artists’ drawing tool made of rolled paper used to smudge or blend marks made with charcoal, Conté crayon, pencil or other drawing media.
pos: noun
gloss: A wooden or concrete pole used to support a house.
pos: noun
gloss: A leg.
pos: noun
tags: humorous
slang
examples: to stir one's stumps
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
gloss: A pin or projection in a lock to form a guide for a movable piece.
pos: noun
gloss: To stop, confuse, or puzzle.
pos: verb
tags: informal
transitive
gloss: To baffle; to make unable to find an answer to a question or problem.
pos: verb
tags: informal
intransitive
examples: This last question has me stumped.
gloss: To campaign.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: He’s been stumping for that reform for months.
gloss: To travel over (a state, a district, etc.) giving speeches for electioneering purposes.
pos: verb
tags: US
colloquial
transitive
gloss: To get a batsman out stumped.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To bowl down the stumps of (a wicket).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: A herd of boys with clamour bowled, / And stumped the wicket.
gloss: To walk heavily or clumsily, plod, trudge.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Mrs Dibble made for the kitchen, stumping violently with her crutches and heaving her bulk along with the obvious determination to submerge her wrongs by resorting to the gin-bottle.
gloss: To reduce to a stump; to truncate or cut off a part of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To strike unexpectedly; to stub, as the toe against something fixed.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: stumped
stump up
Derived words: beyond the black stump
black stump
bleeding stump
call it stumps
chopping stump
dumb as a stump
fourth stump
gump stump
gump-stump
leg stump
middle stump
off stump
on the stump
pull up stumps
restump
rump and stump
stir one's stumps
stumpage
stump and rump
stump cam
stump camera
stump cutter
stump detective
stump dump
stumpery
stump grinder
stumphole
stumpie
stumpify
stumpish
stump it
stumpitis
stumpland
stumpless
stumplike
stumpling
stumpnose
stump orator
stump out
stump powder
stumps
stump speech
stump stabber
stump-tailed macaque
stump tracery
stump-water
stumpwork
stumpy
take the stump
this side of the black stump
tree stump
treestump
up a stump
up the stump
unstumpable
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: озадачавам
roman: ozadačavam
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 难住
roman: nánzhù
lang: Czech
word: vyvést z míry
lang: Czech
word: zarazit
lang: Finnish
word: hämmentää
lang: Finnish
word: sekoittaa
lang: German
word: ratlos sein
lang: German
word: verblüfft sein
lang: German
word: mit seiner Weisheit am Ende sein
lang: Māori
word: whakahanepī
lang: Spanish
word: no tener ni idea de cómo contestar
lang: Spanish
word: estar sin respuesta
lang: Turkish
word: afallamak