Home › Words › C › crawthumpercrawthumpercrawthumper means an ostentatiously pious person.EtymologyFrom craw + thumper, suggesting a person who is always beating (thumping) their chest (craw), a gesture of piety and submission.nounAn ostentatiously pious person.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.crawthumping 86% match — ostentatiously pious vs crawthumper →voteen 66% match — An ostentatiously pious person. vs crawthumper →tartuffe 64% match — A religious hypocrite. vs crawthumper →overpious 63% match — Excessively pious. vs crawthumper →sanctimonious 60% match — Making a show of being morally better than others, especially hypocritically pious. vs crawthumper →tartuffery 59% match — religious hypocrisy vs crawthumper →churchy 58% match — Piously Christian. vs crawthumper →pecksniff 58% match — A very hypocritical person. vs crawthumper →