tubthumping

English

Etymology

From tub +‎ thumping. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Verb

tubthumping

  1. present participle and gerund of tubthump

Noun

tubthumping (uncountable)

  1. Aggressive political or commercial promotion.
    • 1914, Charles G. Harper, 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."

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