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tubthumping en · ADJ

Etymology

From tub + thumping.

Meanings

1. Brash, self-promoting.
   • "Our pictures avoid deliberate, tubthumping propaganda but they exude the spirit of democracy." 1994, Stephen Vaughn, Ronald Reagan in Hollywood: Movies and Politics, page 199:

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Relateds

tooting one's own horn · banging the drum for · beating one's chest · chest-beating · rabblerousing · stem-winder · chest-thumping · tubthumper · pounding the table · soapboxing · beating the drum for

tubthumping en · NOUN

Etymology

From tub + thumping.

Meanings

1. (uncountable) Aggressive political or commercial promotion.
   • […] the general public, who imagine — poor fools — that all the fury and tubthumping at Westminster is honest emotion, […]. 1914, Charles G. Harper, The Kentish Coast, page 344:
   • 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.

tubthumping en · VERB

Etymology

From tub + thumping.

Meanings

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of tubthump
   form of tubthump