tubthumping

English

Etymology

From tub +‎ thumping.

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."

Related terms

• tubthumper

See also

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