单词 | to stump it |
释义 | > as lemmasto stump it a. intransitive. To make stump speeches; to conduct electioneering by public speaking. Also to stump it. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > speech-making > make a speech [verb (intransitive)] > for particular occasion, purpose, or cause epitaph1606 vary1680 stump1839 to take the stump1868 spruik1894 to go on the stump1903 Limehouse1913 tub-thump1920 soap-box1926 1839 R. M. Bird Peter Pilgrim (new ed.) I. 86 I stumped through my district, and my fellow-citizens sent me to Congress! 1847 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. (at cited word) To stump it. 1859 C. Mackay Life & Liberty Amer. I. 159 To stump, to address public meetings in the open air. 1860 R. W. Emerson Power in Conduct of Life (London ed.) 69 Stumping it through England for seven years, made Cobden a consummate debater. 1874 Hotten's Slang Dict. (rev. ed.) 313 Stump, to go about speechmaking on politics or other subjects. 1878 N. Amer. Rev. 126 275 Down in Carolina, stumping for Grant. < as lemmas |
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