kirkgoer
English
Alternative forms
- kirk-goer
Etymology
From kirk + goer.
Noun
kirkgoer (plural kirkgoers)
- (Scotland) Someone who goes to kirk; a churchgoer. [from 18th c.]
- 1888, Robert Louis Stevenson, letter:
- I am no great kirkgoer, for many reasons — and the sermon's one of them, and the first prayer another, but the chief and effectual reason is the stuffiness.
- 1976, Angela Carter, ‘My Father's House’, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage 2013, p. 20:
- But this lady has the stern face of a kirk-goer.
- 1888, Robert Louis Stevenson, letter: