A demagogue. Sydney Smith in 1802 uses the phrase “rabble-rousing words.” (N.E.D.)
1843. Nothing surpasses the munificent promises and at the same time the external and grovelling humility of a genuine rabblerouser, just before an election.—B. R. Hall (‘Robert Carlton’), ‘The New Purchase,’ i. 211.
a. 1905. (Arkansas.) ‘Dialect Notes,’ iii. 152.
