cushion-smiter

English

Noun

cushion-smiter (plural cushion-smiters)

1. (UK, 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.

References

• John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary