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What is a mugwump?

What is a mugwump? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (US) An independent neutral politician, especially in reference to the 1884 U.S. presidential election.
  2. (colloquial) An aloof or self-important but inconsequential person.
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There was only one degree lower, and that was to be a mugwump.
This cynic, this philosopher, this mugwump says Sir Walter was a genuine man.
For the average citizen, if there's anything to be said of a mugwump, it's that he doesn't play favorites.
Well, in politics and religion, I am not a mugwump, sitting on the fence with my mug on one side and my wump on the other.
Webster calls himself a Mugwump, but the mug and wump usually lean over the conservative side of the fence.
He had always fooled more or less with politics, having come out as a mugwump and free-trader under Cleveland.

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