leather-lunged

American  

[leth-er-luhngd] / ˈlɛð ərˈlʌŋd /

adjective

1. speaking or capable of speaking in a loud, resonant voice, especially for prolonged periods.

   The leather-lunged senator carried on the filibuster for 18 hours.

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Etymology

Origin of leather-lunged

First recorded in 1840–50

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Example Sentences

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leather-lunged

There were players, television announcers and a handful of team officials, but the 100,000 seats, normally nearly full of leather-lunged fans for the season opener, were empty.

From New York Times ● Mar. 19, 2020

Soundgarden’s 1991 album, “Badmotorfinger,” brought the band to its heaving, hard-riffing, leather-lunged, ferocious extreme, fully establishing it as the grunge extension of Led Zeppelin, with Chris Cornell singing about defiance and rage rather than cockiness.

From New York Times ● Nov. 24, 2016

"Not only does Staunton display greater leather-lunged force in the show-stopping numbers such as Everything's Coming Up Roses... She also packs more into this whirlwind-restless, tormented spirit," he said.

From BBC ● Apr. 16, 2015

He has been a Hollywood office boy, publicity man, script clerk, director of hundreds of leather-lunged Westerns.

From Time Magazine Archive

“Sister, that’s what I’m doin’,” Preacher Parr retorted, leather-lunged.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

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