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Definition of Tub-thumper
1. Noun. A noisy and vigorous or ranting public speaker.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tub-thumper
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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