Definition of Tub-thumper

1. Noun. A noisy and vigorous or ranting public speaker.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Tub-thumper

tu-whit tu-whoo
tu quoque
tuaminoheptane
tuan
tuans
tuart
tuarts
tuatara
tuataras
tuatera
tuateras
tuath
tuaths
tub
tub-cart
tub-thumper (current term)
tub chair
tub gurnard
tub of guts
tub of lard
tuba
tuba acustica
tuba auditiva
tuba auditoria
tuba eustachiana
tuba fallopiana
tuba root
tuba uterina
tubae
tubage

Literary usage of Tub-thumper

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1890)
"Dr. is a frothy tub-thumper^ whose sermons (they are published in one of the London " religious" weeklies) are models of what pulpit eloquence should not be ..."

2. A Glossary of Words Used in the Wapentakes of Manley and Corringham by Edward Peacock (1877)
"tub-thumper, a cooper. 'My dear ! the tub-thumper who lives beside the ' ' Unicorn " has been thrashing his wife.'—Kirton-in- Lindsey, 1854. ..."

3. A Glossary of Words Used in the Neighbourhood of Sheffield by Sidney Oldall Addy (1888)
"I have not heard the word in the dialect. tub-thumper, sb. a cooper. ... o' do t" same as t' tub thumper did—o'd hoop her.'— Bywater, 137. ..."

4. Essays in Liberalism by Hilaire Belloc, Francis Wrigley Hirst, John Allsebrook Simon Simon, John Swinnerton Phillimore, John Lawrence Hammond, Philip James Macdonell (1897)
"France," "Germany," "Concert of Powers," "Balkan Questions"—these are idle shibboleths chucked about as freely from tub-thumper to tub-thumper as such ..."

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