tubthumping
English
Etymology
tub + thumping
Verb
tubthumping
- present participle of tubthump
Noun
tubthumping (uncountable)
- Aggressive political or commercial promotion.
- 1914, Harper, Charles G., The Kentish Coast, page 344
- […] the general public, who imagine — poor fools — that all the fury and tubthumping at Westminster is honest emotion, […].
- 1939, Railway Age, vol. 107, Oct.-Dec.
- But there is usually more to Automobile Week than good-natured tubthumping for the new passenger car models.
- 1914, Harper, Charles G., The Kentish Coast, page 344
Adjective
tubthumping (comparative more tubthumping, superlative most tubthumping)
- Brash, self-promoting.
- 1994, Stephen Vaughn, Ronald Reagan in Hollywood: Movies and Politics, page 199:
- "Our pictures avoid deliberate, tubthumping propaganda but they exude the spirit of democracy."
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Related terms
- tubthumper
See also
- rabblerousing
- stemwinder