cushion-smiter

noun

A tubthumping clergyman or preacher.

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Meanings

nouncushion-smiter (plural cushion-smiters)

plural cushion-smiters

  1. UKobsoleteslangA tubthumping clergyman or preacher.

    Who's preaching now? You speak like a cushion-smiter.

    1888, James McGrigor Allan, A lady's four perils, volume 1, page 160
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    […] they pass alternately into church and Dissenting chapel, where “Cushion smiters” once abounded.

    1868, Dr. John Doran, Saints and Sinners: Or, In Church and About It, volume 2, page 293
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