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单词 tubthumping
释义

tubthumping

English

Etymology

tub + thumping

Verb

tubthumping

  1. present participle of tubthump

Noun

tubthumping (uncountable)

  1. 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.

Adjective

tubthumping (comparative more tubthumping, superlative most tubthumping)

  1. 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."
  • tubthumper

See also

  • rabblerousing
  • stemwinder
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