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单词 Bible-pounder
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Bible-pounder

noun

Bi·​ble-pound·​er
variants or less commonly bible-pounder
plural Bible-pounders also bible-pounders
US, informal
: bible-thumper
A typical God-fearing Bible-pounder who believes that money in the bank is a sign of God's approval. Trevanian, Incident at Twenty-Mile, 1999
He wants to connect the kind of people that he represents—Evangelical Christians—but not necessarily the image of Evangelical Christians that you may have of some sort of fundamentalist Bible-pounder, those sorts of clichés from popular imagination. Ron Elving, National Public Radio, 18 Aug. 2008
Bible-pounding adjective
or less commonly bible-pounding
Many people in our culture today try to stereotype Christians as wild-eyed zealots and legalistic Bible-pounding bigots. Charles W. Colson et al., Answers To Your Kids' Questions, 2000

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1889, in the meaning defined above

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