Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who spins out long dreary discourses; a prosy preacher.
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‘spintext’, ‘lacklatin’, ‘mumblematins’, all applied to ignorant clerics; ‘bitesheep’ (a favourite word with Foxe) to such of these as were rather wolves tearing, than shepherds feeding, the flock;
English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846
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