Bible-pounder

noun

Bi·​ble-pound·​er

variants or less commonly bible-pounder

plural Bible-pounders also bible-pounders

US, informal

: bible-thumper

A typical God-fearing Bible-pounder who believes that money in the bank is a sign of God's approval.

—Trevanian, Incident at Twenty-Mile, 1999

He wants to connect the kind of people that he represents—Evangelical Christians—but not necessarily the image of Evangelical Christians that you may have of some sort of fundamentalist Bible-pounder, those sorts of clichés from popular imagination.

—Ron Elving, National Public Radio, 18 Aug. 2008

Bible-pounding adjective

or less commonly bible-pounding

Many people in our culture today try to stereotype Christians as wild-eyed zealots and legalistic Bible-pounding bigots.

—Charles W. Colson et al., Answers To Your Kids' Questions, 2000

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1889, in the meaning defined above

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