cushion-smiter
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
cushion-smiter (plural cushion-smiters)
- (UK, slang, obsolete) A tubthumping clergyman or preacher.
- 1868, Dr. John Doran, Saints and Sinners: Or, In Church and About It, volume 2, page 293:
- […] they pass alternately into church and Dissenting chapel, where “Cushion smiters” once abounded.
- 1888, James McGrigor Allan, A lady's four perils, volume 1, page 160:
- Who's preaching now? You speak like a cushion-smiter.
References[edit]
- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary