ranter

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This man was a potty-mouthed ranter, my secret hero, who taught me all kinds of titillating words and challenged me, even at 11, to think about religion, corruption, and social graces.

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  1. One who rants; a noisy talker; a boisterous preacher, actor, or the like.
  2. [capitalized] A name applied
  3. By way of reproach, to the members of an English Antinomian sect of the Commonwealth period, variously associated with the Familists, etc.

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  • This man was a potty-mouthed ranter, my secret hero, who taught me all kinds of titillating words and challenged me, even at 11, to think about religion, corruption, and social graces. —  Boston Phoenix - thePhoenix.com
  • Pox Anglorum is merely a soap box for a ranter manqué. —  British Blogs
  • "[T] he most self-absorbed, unstable, 'because I say so' ranter I've ever encountered in the blogosphere" - Another idiot —  damnum absque injuria
  • Here is the example of PenCanada which gave its inagaural 2005 Paul Kidd Award for Journalistic Courage to an anti-American ranter named Paul William Roberts, as if it takes courage nowadays to join the chorus of anti-Americans. —  Covenant Zone
  • You can quibble about Stewart's motives in undertaking the piece -- after he was spurned for an interview by CNBC's faux populist ranter Rick Santelli -- but you can't argue with the results. —  The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
 

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Etymologies (3)

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  1. from rant + -er.
  2. Origin obscure.
  3. Cf. ranter, n.
 

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