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cushion-smiter en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (UK, obsolete, slang) A tubthumping clergyman or preacher.
    • […] 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:
    • 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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