or cushion-thumper, subs. (common).—A clergyman. [Derivation obvious.] For synonyms, see DEVIL-DODGER.
1843. THACKERAY, The Irish Sketch-Book, ch. xx. For what a number of such loud nothings, windy, emphatic tropes and metaphors, spoken, not for God’s glory, but the preacher’s, will many a CUSHION-THUMPER have to answer!
1849. THACKERAY, in Scribner’s Magazine, June, 1887, p. 686. CUSHION-THUMPERS and High and Low Church extatics.
1889. Modern Society, 19 Oct., p. 1294, col. 1. On a recent occasion a CUSHION-THUMPER received a challenge from the miserable sinner whom he so volubly denounced.
