stump n.
1. (also stumpie) the penis; thus as v., to enter, to have intercourse.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Chaste Maid in Cheapside V iii: Ho, my wife’s quicken’d; I’m a man for ever! I think I have bestirr’d my stumps. | |
| Fine Companion III v: She said I was an old dry stumpe, that had not the least drop of moisture in me. | |
| Mercurius Melancholicus 20 22–29 Jan. 129: Martyn that beastly leacher, stumps the whores in every hole. | |
| ‘The Breech wash’d by a Friend to the Rump’ Rump Poems and Songs (1662) II 13: Old Oliver was a Teazer, / And waged warr with the Stump; / But Alexander and Caesar / Did both submit to the Rump. | |
| (trans.) Gargantua and Pantagruel (1927) II Bk V 677: Now I hope to see some brawny, juicy rump / Well tickled with my carnal stump. | |
![[Scot]](/static/img/flags/sco.png "Scotland") | ‘Wap & Row’ Secret Cabinet (1979) 71: I mysel’ a thumpin quean, And try’d the reel of stumpie O. / Wap and row, wap and row. | |
| Sl. and Its Analogues. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Zimmer’s Essay 56: He sticks his limp stump in Larry’s ear and tries to piss. | |
| (con. 1941) Gunner 27: Just take out his middle stump. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Jailhouse Jargon and Street Sl. [unpub. ms.]. |
2. money [it is ‘stumped up’].
| Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. | |
| New and Improved Flash Dict. | |
| Adventures of Mr Verdant Green (1982) II 179: I hope Stump and Rowdy have got something for me, because I want some tin very bad. |
3. (US) a dare, a challenge to do something difficult or dangerous.
 | Warsaw Signal (IL) 3 Sept. 3/3: Joe is not good for much, but he said I dare not have him, and I won’t take a stump from any body [DA]. | |
| Advance 18 Oct. 102/3: The bravest thing ye did was to refuse to run the risk for a mere stump! [DA]. | |
| (con. 1848) Seargent S. Prentiss (1970) 324: It mentioned that Democrat John C. Larue was then in Texas ‘taking the stump’. |
4. a fool [one who is short and thick adj. (1a)].
| Innocents at Home 384: He was a stump – come into pra’r meeting drunk. | |
| Sl. and Its Analogues. |
5. (US prison) a sentence of less than one year.
| Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist (1926) 302: ‘How big is the stump?’ [...] ‘It’s one year, elev’n months, an’ twenty-sev’n days. It ain’t no two years.’ [Ibid.] 443 : I have ‘2 an’ a stump’ (stump, 11 months). |
6. an old woman.
| Dimboola (2000) 88: aggie: Where do all those children come from in the orphanages? darkie: Certainly not from a dried-up stump like you. |
In compounds
(US) to commit bestiality with an animal.
| (con. 1970s) King Suckerman (1998) 88: More than one time Ronald had caught Russell [...] stump-breaking some mule. |
(UK Und.) one who clips coins.
| New and Improved Flash Dict. |
SE in slang uses
In compounds
(US Und.) a lamp-post.
| Ladies’ Repository (N.Y.) Oct. VIII:37 317/1: Stump Glim, or Blind Charley, a lamp post. |
1. a rural person, a yokel, a farmer.
| Look Away 87: That’s the home of the hillbillies. Some folks call ’em ‘stump-jumpers’ [OED]. | |
| Amer. Thes. Sl. §391.3: rustic, bumpkin, stump jumper. |
2. an unsophisticated person.
| letter 23 Sept. Joint (1972) 146: The stumpjumpers have been forced to imitate the black mammyjammers. | |
| Carlito’s Way 124: A little stump-jumper maybe five-two with fat mod ties. | |
| (con. c.1967) Firefight 155: You must think I’m the dumbest stump jumper to ever come down this pike. |
(US) an unprofessional, part-time lay preacher; also stump-speech n., a preacher’s sermonizing; stump it v., to sermonize.
| The Down-Trodden 43/1: The result was, that a ‘stump orator’ who had been ‘stumping’ it around the circuit, became the duly elected candidate. | |
| Sut Lovingood’s Yarns 216: He’d gester wif his arms like he war makin a stump-speech. | |
| Hbk of Phrases 29: Stump Orator. A vulgar speaker. An American expression, derived from Congress candidates addressing the electors from stumps of trees. | |
| Old Virginia Gentleman (1910) 138: What he knew about the government he had learned from stump speakers. | |
| They Call Me Carpenter 124: A ‘Bolshevik stump speech’ to a mob of striking tailors. | |
| Mules and Men (1995) 136: They knew he was a travelling preacher, a ‘stump-knocker’ in the language of the ‘job’. | |
| PADS 23 35: The average white Southerner may use the term jackleg preacher freely as a gloss for such more local terms as chairbacker, stump-knocker, table-tapper, and yard-ax – designations for a part-time voluntary preacher, normally without formal seminary training and generally with a low degree of competence. |
In phrases
(US black) an invitation to sit down.
| ‘Pool-Shooting Monkey’ in et al. Life (1976) 33: Find a stump to fit your rump / And I’ll coon you till your asshole jump. | |
| Get Your Ass in the Water (1974) 173: Find a stump that’ll fit your rump, / I’ll skin you some coon if you don’t jump. [Ibid.] 174: He said, ‘Well you get you a stump to fit your rump, / if I don’t make you shit, I’ll make you jump.’. | |
| (con. late 1960s) Lost in the Ottawa 256: Meanwhile Shadrack and Trickshot were keeping up a steady stream of domino jargon. ‘Find a stump to fit your rump and I’ll domino you ’til your butt-hole jump.’. |
1. in difficulties, perplexed.
| Eng. Grammar 206: [He will] soon be up a stump [DA]. | |
| Tom Sawyer 29: Ben stared a moment and then said: ‘Hi-yi! You’re up a stump, ain’t you!’. | |
| (con. c.1840) Huckleberry Finn (2001) 222: I see I was up a stump. I had to let on to get choked with a chicken bone, so as to get time to think how to get down again. | |
| Tom Sawyer, Detective Ch. III: But now we was up a stump, for we couldn’t go to bed. We had to set up and watch one another. | |
| Forty Modern Fables 5: The Brunette was Up a Stump when it came to making a Choice. | |
| ‘Folk “Sayings” From Indiana’ in AS XIV:4 266: To be ‘up a stump’ is to be puzzled about something. | |
| Mentor Graham 147: For once in his life, work had him so up a stump that he could not snatch a moment for study or reading [DA]. | |
| Forgive Me, Killer (2000) 9: I’m up a stump, Lieutenant [...] Grace is in the hospital. |
2. (US) as up the stump, pregnant.
| Augie March (1996) 210: This time she wasn’t up the stump, as she put it. |
(US) out of money, impoverished.
| N.Y. Transcript 27 Oct. 2/5: I’m [...] pockets to let, used up to the stump, not got a stiver. |