Cushion-smiter

noun, slang

noun, slang ·Uncommon ·College level

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Noun
  1. 1
    A tubthumping clergyman or preacher. UK, obsolete, slang

    "[…] they pass alternately into church and Dissenting chapel, where “Cushion smiters” once abounded."

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"[…] they pass alternately into church and Dissenting chapel, where “Cushion smiters” once abounded."

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