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ˈtub-ˌthumper
1. A speaker or preacher who for emphasis thumps the pulpit; a violent or declamatory preacher or orator; a ranter.
1662H. Foulis Hist. Plots Pretended Saints 80 Tub-thumpers..a sort of people more antick in their Devotions than Don Buscos Fencing-Master. 1720–1Lett. fr. Mist's Jrnl. (1722) II. 225 An honest Presbyterian Tub-thumper, who has lost his Voice with bawling to his Flock. 1864Athenæum 27 Aug. 267/3 Preachers, humorous tub-thumpers. 1908Daily Chron. 3 Nov. 5/7 It would reduce the M.P{ddd}to the position of a Temperance tub-thumper.
2. A cooper. humorous dial.
1872Hartley Yorks. Ditties Ser. i. 98 At last au set up as tub-thumper. 1880L. J. Jennings Rambles 110 ‘A tub-thumper?’.. ‘Ay Mister—what you call a cooper.’
So (as a back-formation) ˈtub-thump v. intr.; also ˈtub-ˌthumpery; ˈtub-ˌthumping n. and a.
1888Contemp. Rev. Aug. 253 Very modest gifts, belonging to what may be called the tub-thumping school of oratory. 1894Westm. Gaz. 22 Aug. 1/2 What we demand is not a display of tub-thumping at the fag-end of a Session,..but a deliberate plan of campaign, carefully thought out and doggedly pursued. 1909Times 21 Mar., A democratic election, with all its tub-thumping and unreasoning passion and sheer noise. 1920‘Sapper’ Bulldog Drummond iv. 117 The sort of type one sees tub-thumping in Hyde Park. 1927Observer 28 Aug. 11/4 Fanny Hawthorne's refusal to be made an honest woman..may still be regarded as advanced in ethics, even if its expression is not without a suspicion of tub-thumpery. 1933Dylan Thomas Let. (1966) 75 And thank you for..heeding my dogmatic tub-thumpery. 1934E. Pound ABC of Reading 113 A bad reader of fourteeners is almost certain to tub-thump. |