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Quran thumping

Quran thumping adjective: the act or practice of spreading Islam or Qur'anic principles in an overbearing or overzealous manner.

Adjective

Quran thumping (comparative more Quran thumping, superlative most Quran thumping)

  1. (derogatory) The act or practice of spreading Islam or Qur'anic principles in an overbearing or overzealous manner.
    • One can only hope that their fanaticism will come to a peaceful end and who knows we may have quran thumping evangelists (seems like this net is already full of them) which is still better than the sword thumping fanatics!1993 May 20, Savithri, “Re: Jews Shoot Muslim Infants”, in talk.politics.mideast (Usenet)
    • Maybe you were lucky and saw a few who managed to ignore the idiotic ramblings of their quran thumping brethren1994 November 3, FINGER THIS!!!!, “Re: Islamic Hero from the far far sidelines”, in alt.atheism (Usenet)
    Synonyms:
    Koran thumping

Synonyms of Quran thumping

Forms of Quran thumping

comparativemore Quran thumping
superlativemost Quran thumping

Questions about Quran thumping

What does Quran thumping mean?
Quran thumping means the act or practice of spreading Islam or Qur'anic principles in an overbearing or overzealous manner.
What part of speech is Quran thumping?
Quran thumping is an adjective.

Words near Quran thumping in the dictionary

  1. Quraishites
  2. Quran
  3. Quran Belt
  4. Quran thumper
  5. Quran thumpers
  6. Quran thumping
  7. quranic
  8. Quranic Arabic
  9. Quranically
  10. quranimal
  11. quranimals

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