tub-thumpern.
1. A speaker or preacher who for emphasis thumps the pulpit; a violent or declamatory preacher or orator; a ranter.
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the mind > language > speech > speech-making > [noun] > loud or vociferous oratory > one who engages in
concionatrixc1430
concionator1623
tub-thumper1662
haranguera1668
thunderer1785
1662 H. Foulis Hist. Wicked Plots ii. i. 80 Tub-thumpers..a sort of people more antick in their Devotions than Don Buscos Fencing-Master.
1720–21 Lett. from Mist's Jrnl. (1722) II. 225 An honest Presbyterian Tub-thumper, who has lost his Voice with bawling to his Flock.
1864 Athenæum 27 Aug. 267/3 Preachers, humorous tub-thumpers.
1908 Daily Chron. 3 Nov. 5/7 It would reduce the M.P…to the position of a Temperance tub-thumper.
2. A cooper. humorous dialect.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > producer > makers of containers or receptacles > [noun] > maker of casks or cooper
cooperc1415
trusser1535
hooper1552
tubman1677
tubber1825
tub-thumper1872
barrel-maker1883
1872 J. Hartley Yorks. Ditties 1st Ser. 98 At last au set up as tub-thumper.
1880 L. J. Jennings Rambles among Hills 110 ‘A tub-thumper?’.. ‘Ay Mister—what you call a cooper.’
Derivatives
ˈtub-thump v. [as a back-formation] (intransitive) .
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the mind > language > speech > speech-making > make a speech [verb (intransitive)] > for particular occasion, purpose, or cause
epitaph1606
vary1680
stump1839
to take the stump1868
spruik1894
to go on the stump1903
Limehouse1913
tub-thump1920
soap-box1926
1920 ‘Sapper’ Bull-dog Drummond iv. 117 The sort of type one sees tub-thumping in Hyde Park.
1934 E. Pound ABC of Reading 113 A bad reader of fourteeners is almost certain to tub-thump.
ˈtub-ˌthumpery n.
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the mind > language > speech > speech-making > [noun] > for specific occasion, purpose, or cause
bar-oratorya1754
mob-oratory1846
stumping1865
keynoting1889
soap-boxing1919
Limehousing1920
tub-thumpery1927
soap-box1928
1927 Observer 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.
1933 D. Thomas Let. in Sel. Lett. (1966) 75 And thank you for..heeding my dogmatic tub-thumpery.
ˈtub-ˌthumping n. and adj.
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the mind > language > speech > speech-making > [noun] > loud or vociferous oratory
Boanergy1778
table-thumping1839
ponging1854
Boanergism1861
tub-thumping1888
1888 Contemp. Rev. Aug. 253 Very modest gifts, belonging to what may be called the tub-thumping school of oratory.
1894 Westm. 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.
1909 Times 21 Mar. A democratic election, with all its tub-thumping and unreasoning passion and sheer noise.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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