I am pretty sure it was Teddy Roosevelt who defined a “Mug Wump” as someone with his mug on one side of an issue and his wump on the other, but otherwise I don’t recall WUMP having an independent usage.
And designed to fail! We used to think Kenmore was something you could buy and keep. But they then they changed to doing the wiring by metal films on plastic, and using plastic that had its plasticizers evaporate so it got brittle. Plastic breaks, vacuum motor gets no power and live connections are exposed, and the company quit selling replacement parts.
Years ago when my father in law was in stock control for GE, any new design for something like a vacuum cleaner had to include from engineering a list of all the parts with anticipated lifetime and failure mode for each, and plans for what and how many replacements to stock for each part, for decades to come. (Of course they then installed a company leader whose only goal was keeping stock prices high, and all of that disappeared.)
A late colleague of mine always said he was left handed for throwing, voting, and something else I can’t remember, and right handed for everything else.
I am pretty sure it was Teddy Roosevelt who defined a “Mug Wump” as someone with his mug on one side of an issue and his wump on the other, but otherwise I don’t recall WUMP having an independent usage.