Butt-woman
//ˈbʌtwʊmən// noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A female lay church worker who tends the pews in a church; a sextoness. British, obsolete
"My thoughts always revert to the angry butt-woman when the second chapter of St. James' Epistle is read in its ordinary course."
Example
More examples"My thoughts always revert to the angry butt-woman when the second chapter of St. James' Epistle is read in its ordinary course."
Etymology
Compound of butt (“hassock”) + woman.
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