sarmon

plural sarmons

1. alternativedialectalAlternative form of sermon.

   “Wall,” said the landlord, fetching a long breath, “that's a purty long sarmon for a chap that rips a little now and then".

   1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick: Or the Whale, page 44

   2 more examples

   "I'm sure it is," she replied; "for at the very top it begins with 'Father Mulvaney's Sarmon.' " "A priest's sarmon put on the paper," repeated the good man, rubbing his hands gleesomely, and drawing his "creepie" closer to the fire; "let's have it, Grace.

   1838, Mrs. S. C. Hall, Lights and Shadows of Irish Life, volume 2, page 73

   The passage announced, his large features glowing with the warmth of love, he commenced thus: “ Noo, friends, I'm not bown [going] to preach ye a sarmon: you mun [must] take it warm off't backst'n. I never but yance [once] made a sarmon i' my life, an' then I cam into the chapel as prood as the divel could mak me.

   1849, Robert Athow West, Sketches of Wesleyan Preachers, page 137