FW: tub-thumper: M-W's Word of the Day

[Tom Driscoll]

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The Word of the Day for Mar 07 is: 


tub-thumper \TUB-thum-per\ (noun) 

: a vociferous supporter (as of a cause) 

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Example sentence:
Aunt Lucille was a tub-thumper for temperance who never passed up an
opportunity to sermonize fervently on the evils of "demon drink" and the
virtues of abstinence. 


Did you know?
Tub-thumpers are a noisy (and sometimes amusing) lot. The earliest ones
were preachers or public speakers with a predisposition for pounding
their fists on the pulpit or speaker's podium - perhaps to wake up their
listeners! Back in the 17th century, the word "tub" was sometimes used
as a synonym of "pulpit"; John Dryden, for example, used the word thus
in 1680 when he wrote, "Jack Presbyter shall here erect his throne,
Knock out a tub with preaching once a day." "Tub-thumper" has been
naming loud, impassioned speakers since at least 1662, when it was used
by a writer named Hugh Foulis to describe "a sort of people ... antick
in their Devotions."

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