piano-thumpingn.
/pɪˈanəʊˌθʌmpɪŋ/, U.S. /piˈænoʊˌθəmpɪŋ/ The action or practice of playing the piano loudly, or in an insensitive or heavy-handed manner. Also (colloquial): piano-playing generally.
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1882 Freeborn County Standard (Albert Lea, Minnesota) 5 Jan. 7/6 A daughter..whose piano thumping can be heard all over the neighbourhood.
1895 Overland Monthly May 551/2 After an interval of piano thumping,..the whole ‘mise en scene’ is removed to Florida.
1906 Westm. Gaz. 11 Aug. 4/3 In these days of universal piano-thumping.
1951 R. F. Rattray Bernard Shaw 46 His piano-thumping and the fecklessness it implied drove her, when she could bear it no longer, to another part of the house.
1995 Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 22 Nov. a9/6 Starr's driving drums, McCartney's insistent piano thumping, and Harrison's swelling guitar arpeggios.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
piano-thumpingadj.
/pɪˈanəʊˌθʌmpɪŋ/, U.S. /piˈænoʊˌθəmpɪŋ/ Chiefly colloquial.
Of a person: that plays the piano, esp. loudly or insensitively.
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1840 Southern Literary Messenger 6 629/1 Twenty other domestic accomplishments, so rare and so useful, yet so despised, among the piano-thumping, novel-reading, and tight-lacing misses of these days.
1929 Reno (Nevada) Evening Gaz. 22 Oct. 12/6 He became one of the East Side's piano thumping kids.
1944 Lima (Ohio) News 22 July 1/1 The 60-year-old piano-thumping senator..beat Henry A. Wallace to the second place nomination.
1981 Post-Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.) 22 Oct. a4/1 Presley's doctor..is on trial..[for] overprescribing addictive drugs for Presley, piano-thumping singer Jerry Lee Lewis, himself and eight others.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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