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crawthumping

crawthumping adjective: ostentatiously pious.

Adjective

crawthumping

  1. (Ireland, colloquial) ostentatiously pious

Origin of crawthumping

From craw + thumping.

Questions about crawthumping

What does crawthumping mean?
Crawthumping means ostentatiously pious.
What part of speech is crawthumping?
Crawthumping is an adjective.

Words near crawthumping in the dictionary

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

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