tub-thumper
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of tub-thumper
First recorded in 1655–65
Example Sentences
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Waters even reports nattering with the late alt-right tub-thumper Andrew Breitbart.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 8, 2018
Are you a patriot, and do you see Brave as a patriotic Scottish movie? The title recalls Braveheart, but it doesn't feel like an obvious tub-thumper, does it?
From The Guardian ● Aug. 2, 2012
But the caricature of Warnock is a hothead and tub-thumper who lives by the feud.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 8, 2011
Alastair Campbell : former No 10 press fixer, Labour tub-thumper.
From The Guardian ● May 4, 2010
How thankful we ought to be that the historian, with his long sonorous words—flagitiosorum ac facinorosorum—did not make of our perfervid apothecary a mere tub-thumper of Corinthian prose!
From Henrik Ibsen by Edmund Gosse
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