basically, typically, usually and most specifically used to describe a person who beats around the bush all the time, beating drums, chest thumping about religion and engaging in acts of bigotry and
xenophobia with sense of pride and giving sermons on way of life. A banke is a blind follower with no mind of his own and unwittingly spreads government propaganda and religious fanaticism mostly due to low level of
intelligence and a false sense of
superiority.