stump v.3
to pay.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | ‘A New Song Called The Mill’ in II (1979) 251: His friends, all Yankees, they did meet, / To stump the brads for the look’d for feat. | |
| Tom and Jerry I iv: It’s every thing now o’days – to be able to flash the screens – sport the rhino – shew the needful – post the pony – nap the rent – stump the pewter – tip the brads – and down with the dust. | |
| Henrietta Temple 300: Friends will stump down, Sir, trust me. | |
| Oliver Twist (1966) 101: You want grub and you shall have it [...] I’ll fork out and stump. | |
| Mysteries of London II (2nd series) 341: He stumped the guelt. | |
| Sam Sly 24 Feb. 1/3: ‘No, no, Mr. Bull,’ says Jonathan, ‘you don't dig here unless you stump down the Almighty dollars first for license’. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Bell’s Life in Sydney 6 May 3/4: By stumping down he was saved from the seclusion of Darlinghurst. | |
| ‘The Death of Moleskin’ Songs of the Dead End 106: Play the game, and stump the pence. |
In phrases
to hand over, esp. of money; as n. a sum of money.
| Real Life in London I 142: She shall stump up the rubbish before I leave her, or give me the address of her flash covey. | |
| ‘A Passage in the Life of Mr. Watkins Tottle’ in Slater Dickens’ Journalism I (1994) 432: Why don’t you ask your governor to stump up? | |
| ‘The Merchant of Venice’ Ingoldsby Legends (1842) 47: In short, my dear Tony, / My trusty old crony, / Do stump up three thousand once more as a loan. | |
| Bell’s Life in Sydney 5 Sept. 2/4: The bench ordered Miss Carney to pay a fine of five bob, which she instantly stumped up. | |
| Era (London) 3 June 3/4: It did my old yes good to see Leviathan Davis stump out his tin like a brick, as he is. | |
| Our Antipodes I 243: The Phoenicians [...] considered the wild inhabitants as [...] only fit to ‘stump up the tin.’. | |
![[Ind]](/static/img/flags/ind.png "India") | Delhi Sketch Bk 1 Apr. 37/1: And when you choose to stump us up her ransom, / Be sure that like herself ’tis something handsome. | |
| Paved with Gold 356: In about six months you can make the old fellow stump up. | |
| Curry & Rice (3 edn) n.p.: [He] who had, vulgo, to stump up; a decree much to the mortification of the matron. | |
| Dict. of Modern Sl. etc. (2nd edn). | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Potter Jrnl (Coudersport, PA) 25 Oct. 1/4: [set in London] Let’s hear the damage, and I’ll stump up. | |
| Queenslander (Brisbane) 22 Feb. 3/7: I hope when [...] they all go round with the hat, the Rockhamptonites will ‘stump up’ liberally. | |
| Won in a Canter II 281: ‘I goes half if he stumps up’. | |
| Bulletin (Sydney) 13 Nov. 4/2: The registrar threatened to marry his client if the latter didn’t ‘stump up’ but it was of no avail. | |
| Bristol Magpie 7 Sept. 3/1: ‘What’ll ’ee stump, mister, to give ’ee a hoist?’. | |
| Fast and Loose III 258: ‘Who is in Queer Street?’ asked Horace Wingspur, coming in; ‘ I shall be if the governor don’t stump up soon.’. | |
| Aus. Sl. Dict. 82: Stump Up, pay the money. | |
| Scarlet City 134: Oscar thought he had got a soft thing and was making his little ‘stump-up’. | |
| Boy’s Own Paper 15 July 667: She promptly remarked that sixpence a pailful was the usual price [...] I stumped up. | |
| ‘Lord Douglas’ in Roderick (1972) 499: Here, Barcoo, stump up, or I’ll belt it out of your hide! | |
| Shadows of the Night in Illus. Police News 21 Sept. 12/2: ‘I’m Lord Sludge! I left my card at my friend Lord Stump-em-up’s [...] (three gold balls over the door)’. | |
![[Ire]](/static/img/flags/ire.png "Ireland") | ‘Ivy Day in the Committee Room’ Dubliners (1956) 121: ‘That’s a nice how-do-you-do,’ said Mr O’Connor. ‘How does he expect us to work for him if he won’t stump up?’. | |
| Marvel 17 July 4: Do you want some more of it, or will you stump up? | |
| Tramp-Royal on the Toby 88: I had to stump up a penny to the toll-man. | |
| Age Of Consent 190: Having to stump up fifty quid to the bank. | |
| letter 28 July in Thwaite Sel. Letters (1992) 247: If I have any interests at present, it is seeing who subscribes to my book [...] Leo Butler stumped up, for instance, but Diana hasn’t. | |
| ‘Canard’ Zoom 54: He stumped up for a brandy and soda. | |
| Indep. on Sun. Real Life 6 June 3: The £400,000 that Hello! stumped up. | |
| Indep. 14 Mar. 6: A group of private investors have stumped up £1.3m to fund the expansions of a company. |