tear-throat

plural tear-throats

1. obsoleteA 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[…]

   1630, John Taylor, Jack a Lent; republished in Works of John Taylor, the Water-Poet, London: Reeves and Turner, 1876, page 15

2. obsoleteactingAn overactor.

comparative more tear-throat · superlative most tear-throat

1. obsoleteVociferous.

   The cheap entertainment of the “tear-throat” Red Bull plays, with their battles, clowns, and fireworks, has been sharply contrasted with the innovative, “literary” dramatic styles of the hall-playhouses, which favored witplay over swordplay[…]

   2013, Eleanor Collins, “Old Repertory, New Theatre”, in Martin Procházka, Andreas Höfele, Hanna Scolnicov, Michael Dobson, editors, Proceedings of the Ninth World Shakespeare Congress, →ISBN, page 151

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   […]upon which was erected the true picture of a most unmatchable Hangman[…]for this tear-throat termagant is a fellow in folio, a commander of such great command, and of such greatness to command, that I never saw any that in that respect could countermand him[…]

   1617, John Taylor, Taylor's Travels; republished in Works of John Taylor, the Water-Poet, London: Reeves and Turner, 1876, pages 8–9

2. obsoleteAmateurish; characterized by overacting.

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

   2000, Robert M. Gorrell, Murder at the Rose, →ISBN

   Synonyms: hammy