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crawthumpers

crawthumpers is the plural of crawthumper.

Meaning of crawthumper

Noun

crawthumper (plural crawthumpers)

  1. (Ireland, colloquial) An ostentatiously pious person, especially a Roman Catholic.
    • Those crawthumpers, now that's a good name for them, there's always something shiftylooking about them.1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 5: Lotus Eaters]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 78
    Synonyms:
    voteen

Questions about crawthumpers

What is crawthumpers the plural of?
Crawthumpers is the plural of crawthumper.

Words near crawthumpers in the dictionary

  1. Crawshaw
  2. Crawshaws
  3. Crawshay
  4. Crawshays
  5. crawthumper
  6. crawthumpers
  7. crawthumping
  8. Craxi
  9. Craxism
  10. cray
  11. cray cray

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