cushion-smiterとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

cushion-smiter (複数形 cushion-smiters)

1. (Britain, slang, obsolete) A tubthumping clergyman or preacher.
   • 1868, Dr. John Doran, Saints and Sinners: Or, In Church and About It (volume 2, page 293)

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

   • 1888, James McGrigor Allan, A lady's four perils (volume 1, page 160)

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

参照

• 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary