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单词 kirkgoer
释义

kirkgoer

English

Alternative forms

  • kirk-goer

Etymology

From kirk + goer.

Noun

kirkgoer (plural kirkgoers)

  1. (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.
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