Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who thunders; specifically, with the definite article, Jupiter (called
Jupiter Tonans ).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who thunders; -- used especially as a translation of L.
tonans , an epithet applied by the Romans to several of their gods, esp. to Jupiter.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
thunders
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a noisemaker that makes a sound like thunder
- noun an epithet for Jupiter
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Examples
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"I have a great unpaid MA student interning in my office – if Clegg had his way I would have to sack him," thunders the thunderer from Shipley, Philip Davies.
Hugh Muir's Diary 2011
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Therefore, make peace with your god, whatever you perceive him to be: hairy thunderer or cosmic muffin.
Deteriorata / Desiderata JargonTalk 2010
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Therefore, make peace with your god, whatever you perceive him to be: hairy thunderer or cosmic muffin.
Archive 2010-01-01 JargonTalk 2010
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Listening to these guys spout how they are guided by a hairy thunderer Cosmic Muffin would sound so so crazy if we weren't so numbed to it.
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And of course as we would be the single celled amoeba, the earth would be flat and the center of the universe with a varied or determined cosmic muffin or hairy thunderer having complete responsibility for our every thought and move once we were magically created from mud and animated by his or her gas.
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 Hercules responds by suckerpunching the thunderer a wonderful sound effect accompanies this: “SUKKAPUNCH!”
Review: Incredible Hercules #136 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009
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Therefore, make peace with your god, whatever you perceive him to be: hairy thunderer or cosmic muffin.
Archive 2008-09-12 FUZZARELLY 2008
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Wells is a thunderer, and if you're going to make that work, the audience needs to buy in to your story of injustice and outrage, and must find your American Idol power crescendos compelling and perfectly tuneful.
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These have no house apart from Zeus, nor any dwelling nor path except that wherein God leads them, but they dwell always with Zeus the loud-thunderer.
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All these are the offspring of the lord, the Loud-thunderer.
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