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cushion-smiters

cushion-smiters is the plural of cushion-smiter.

Meaning of cushion-smiter

Noun

cushion-smiter (plural cushion-smiters)

  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

Questions about cushion-smiters

What is cushion-smiters the plural of?
Cushion-smiters is the plural of cushion-smiter.

Words near cushion-smiters in the dictionary

  1. cushion-cosies
  2. cushion-cosy
  3. cushion-dance
  4. cushion-dances
  5. cushion-smiter
  6. cushion-smiters
  7. cushioned
  8. cushioned the blow
  9. cushionet
  10. cushionets
  11. cushioning

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