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Tubthumping vs Clamorous - What's the difference?

tubthumping | clamorous |

As adjectives the difference between tubthumping and clamorous

is that tubthumping is brash, self-promoting while clamorous is of or pertaining to clamor.

As a verb tubthumping

is .

As a noun tubthumping

is aggressive political or commercial promotion.

tubthumping

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (-)
  • 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

    (en adjective)
  • 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."

    Related terms

    * tubthumper

    See also

    * rabblerousing * stemwinder

    clamorous

    English

    Alternative forms

    * clamourous (archaic)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to clamor.
  • noisy, loud.

    • Derived terms

    * clamorously