10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CRAW-THUMPER»
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Cassell's Dictionary of Slang
[late 17C-mid-19C] ill, sickly, ailing. [Norfolk dial.; cf. synon. Sussex dial: frobly-
mobly] craw sick adj. [late 18C; 1920s+] (Irish) suffering from a hangover. [craw n.
(l) + SEs/dk) craw-thumper n. 1 [late 18C+] (also claw-thumper) a Roman
Catholic ...
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Colloquial Language in Ulysses: A Reference Tool
... devotional," the OED sense from 1785 (craw, sb. 4). Similarly Gifford. But OED
also includes "1873 Slang Dict., Craw thumper. a Roman Catholic." Cf. 12.508.
5.391 (80). Pious fraud. OED pious, a. Ic. (Of fraud 50 Episode 5: Lotus Eaters.
Robert William Dent, 1994
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A Vagabond Army: A Novel of Maryland in the American ...
"Never met a craw-thumper before— don't believe we allow 'em in Connecticut." "
Craw-thumper? — " "You know, a papist, . .like you Mary-Landers." "I'm no papist.
. .I'm Church of Eng — hell, I don't know what lam...." "I'm a CongregationaHst, ...
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The Catholic miscellany and monthly repository of information
I wa$ laughed at by my comrades for a day ; one of them called me a craw-
thumper, and another (the serjeant) said, that if he had known that I had been
infected ,ycith popery he would not have enlisted me. — " I would not have had
you," ...
... but was denounced (fordovit) by the priests of the Catholic Church, grief dyb
sorg mule: work like a mule (muldyr) fettle: form dues afgifter spout aeklamere
craw-thumper: slang for Catholic, (craw is slang for the stomach, and thump
means to ...
"The greatest craw-thumper of them all. You know Frankie, don't you, from over in
Kilnamona? He has a hollow in his chest from — " "Will you shut up, Mick, and let
us get on with the play?" Kitty shouted, and this time her voice did crack.
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Correspondences and Contrasts in Foreign Language Pedagogy ...
Replacing the derogatory “craw thumper” with the neutral “priest” has the effect of
making Martha's former sneering seem even more thoroughgoing: in English she
criticises only craw thumpers; in Polish she criticises all priests. Martha had ...
Katarzyna Piątkowska, Ewa Kościałkowska-Okońska, 2013
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Gallowglass, Or, Life in the Land of the Priests,
Then, as the " craw-thumper " rolled by, more or less inebriated, alone or in
company with his associates, Mrs. O'Dowla would say : " Oh ! oh ! oh ! the Lord be
praised, it must be a wakeness he got, John ! " " Wakeness how are you ?
Michael John Fitzgerald McCarthy, 1904
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A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant Embracing English, ...
Craw-thumper (popular), a Roman Catholic (Hotten). In America a native of
Ireland, i.c, Irish Catholic. Wanted a servant-maid. No pulings or craw-thumpers
need apply.— Philadelphia Public Ledger. Craze (common), used in reference to
...
Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland, 1897
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Travels of an Irish Gentleman in Search of a Religion
When I looked round, however, upon the humble Christians, thus nick-named,
and remembered that St. Augustin himself, the pious and learned St. Augustin,
was also a craw-thumper, I felt that to err with him was, at least, erring in good ...
