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mugwump| In US political history, a colloquial name for the reform Republicans who voted in the 1884 presidential election for Grover Cleveland, the Democratic candidate, rather than for the Republican nominee James G Blaine. Blaine was accused of financial improprieties, and the reform-minded mugwumps were partly responsible for his defeat. |
| The term has come to mean a politician who remains neutral on divisive issues. |
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