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tear-throat

noun

Etymology

From tear + throat.

  1. derived from *trud-✻
  2. inherited from *þrutō✻
  3. inherited from *þrotu✻
  4. inherited from þrote
  5. inherited from throte
  6. compounded as tear-throat — “tear + throat”

Definitions

  1. A blustering, boisterous person.

    • The majestical king of fishes, heroical most magnificent Herring, armed with white and red, keeps his court in all this hurly-burly, not like a tyrannical tear-throat in open arms, but like wise Diogenes in a barrel[…]

  2. An overactor.

  3. Vociferous.

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. Amateurish

      Amateurish; characterized by overacting.

      • Or was he just going to expose the tear-throat acting in the Rose?

The neighborhood

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