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单词 rabble-rouser
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rabble-rousern.

Brit. /ˈrablˌraʊzə/, U.S. /ˈræbəlˌraʊzər/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: rabble n.1, rouser n.
Etymology: < rabble n.1 + rouser n., after rabble-rousing adj. Compare later rabble-rouse v.In sense 2 perhaps originally with allusion to a specific piece of music; compare quot. 1947.
1. A person who speaks with the intention of inflaming the emotions of the populace or a crowd of people, typically for political reasons; an agitator; (more generally) a troublemaker; an unruly person.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > sedition > [noun] > seditious person > rabble-rouser or demagogue
demagogue1649
mob-drivera1734
mob-orator1814
rabble-rouser1831
hatemonger1916
1831 Freeman's Jrnl. (Dublin) 3 Jan. Odilon Barrot, in reply to a charge that he was one of the late rabble-rousers, said, it might as well be affirmed that ‘a certain banker had bought the late revolution’.
1843 ‘R. Carlton’ New Purchase I. xxii. 211 Nothing surpasses the munificent promises..of a genuine rabblerouser, just before an election.
1926 Evening Standard 12 July 3/2 You need not be a Tammany politician to know the meaning of boodle, gerrymander, carpet-bagger, wirepuller, rabble-rouser.
1959 ‘M. M. Kaye’ House of Shade xiv. 190 The murder of a rabble-rouser would probably be considered as of little account.
1965 Punch 13 Jan. 55/1 Hitler the rabble-rouser, Hitler the mob-orator.
1990 Hit Parader July 46/3 As the band's notoriety has grown, so has their reputation for being rabble rousers.
1996 M. Kingwell Dreams Millennium vii. 307 The popularity of anti-Washington sentiment is growing, expressed in unnerving incivility by talk-radio rabble-rousers.
2. A piece of music that excites an audience; a tune or song that appeals to the masses.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > piece of music > type of piece > [noun] > other types of piece
tinternel1573
aubade1678
nome1705
accompaniment1728
potboiler1783
raga1789
elegy1808
improvisation1824
pièce d'occasion1830
morceau de salon1854
tum-tum1859
murky1876
test-piece1876
invention1880
monodia1880
serenata1883
monody1887
dumka1895
incidental number1904
a cappella1905
folk-tune1907
realization1911
nosebleeder1921
show tune1927
sicilienne1927
estampie1937
ballad1944
Siciliana1947
hard rocker1957
rabble-rouser1958
display1959
mobile1961
soundscape1968
grower1973
lounge1978
1947 Music Educators Jrnl. 33 52/3 (advt.) New March by Horace E. Mitchell. Arranged for full band by Cliff Barnes. Writers of Marches:..Banner Victorious (new), Rabble Rouser (novelty).]
1958 New Statesman 1 Feb. 133/3 The symphony ends with a noisy finale which seemed no more than an unusually prolonged rabble-rouser.
1965 G. Melly Owning-up iv. 38 They chose their fastest, loudest numbers, ‘rabble rousers’ was the trade name, in the hope of making some impact on the audience.
2003 S. Brown Free Gift Inside! 67 The program ranged from..reliable rabble-rousers like Rossini's William Tell Overture to the solemnity of A Hymn of Peace, written for the occasion.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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