Reverse Dictionary: PREACH

ADJECTIVES
► CHURCH-CALLED feeling compelled to become a preacher; drawn to the vocation of preaching → 1920s African-American sl.
► PREACHY given to preaching → 1819 colloq.

NOUNS
► PULPITOLATRY reverence for the pulpit or preaching → 1853
► RANTERISM noisy preaching and praying, common among the ‘Ranters’ → 1896 Eng. dial.
► TENT an open-air pulpit → 1785 Sc.
► TENT-PREACHING preaching from a ‘tent’ → 1630 Sc.
► TICKLING-HOUSE a place of preaching → 1681 sl.

NOUNS – PERSON
► ABDELI a hypocrite, a canting preacher; a fastidious or false zealot → 1892 Anglo-Indian sl. (Bk.)
► AMEN-BAWLER a parson; a preacher → 19C sl.
► APRON PREACHER a lay preacher → M17 sl.
► BARN PREACHER an unprofessional or part-time lay preacher → 1805 US sl.
► BARNYARD PREACHER an unprofessional or part-time lay preacher → 1805 Amer. dial.
► BAWLER a declamatory preacher; used contemptuously → 1656
► BIBLE-BANGER a person who expounds or follows the Bible in an aggressive way, esp. a clergyman; a preacher; an enthusiastically religious person  → 1853 colloq. 
► BIBLE-BEATER a fanatical or zealous religious person or preacher → 1965 Amer. dial.
► BIBLE-POUNDER a person who expounds or follows the Bible in an aggressive way, esp. a clergyman, a preacher; also, a sanctimonious Christian → 1868 colloq. 
► BIBLE-PUNCHER a fanatical or zealous religious person or preacher → 1942 Amer. dial.
► BIBLE-RANTER a clergyman, a preacher; a fanatical or zealous religious person → 1876 US sl.
► BIBLE-READER a reader of the Bible; also, one employed to read the Bible from house to house; a clergyman, a preacher → 1548
► BIBLE SALESMAN a Protestant preacher → a1972 US prison sl.
► BIBLE-SHARP a clergyman, a preacher → 1897 US sl.
► BIBLE-SPOUTER a fanatical or zealous religious person or preacher → 1955 Amer. dial.
► BIBLE-THUMPER 1. a fanatical or zealous religious person or preacher → 1942 Amer. dial.
2. a street preacher → 2001 UK sl.
► BIBLE-TOTER a fanatical or zealous religious person or preacher → 1940 Amer. dial.
► BIBLE-WALLOPER a clergyman, a preacher → 1888 sl.
► BLACK CAT a preacher → 1945 criminals’ sl.  (Bk.)
► BREAK PULPIT an impassioned, vehement or bombastic preacher → 1588
► BRIMSTONE BUSTER a ranting preacher who threatens sinners with hellfire → 1939 Amer. dial.
► BRIMSTONE PEDDLER a ranting preacher → 1940 sl.
► BROTHER a preacher; usually followed by name → 1928 Amer. dial.
► CACKLE TUB a preacher → M19 sl.
► CACKLING COVE a clergyman; a preacher → 1891 Amer. sl.  (Bk.)
► CAMISTER a clergyman, a preacher→ 1851 thieves’ cant
► CHAIRBACK an unprofessional, part-time lay preacher → 1955 Amer. dial.
► CHAIRBACKER an unprofessional, part-time lay preacher → 1955 Amer. dial.
► CHAIRBACK PREACHER an unprofessional, part-time lay preacher → 1970 Amer. dial.
► CHAIR PUSHER an unprofessional, part-time lay preacher → 1970 Amer. dial.
► CHICKEN-EATER a preacher → 1954 Amer. dial. esp. African-American
► CHICKEN PREACHER an unordained preacher who only serves part-time → 1970 Amer. dial.
► CHURCH RIDER a part-time lay preacher → 1967 Amer. dial.
► COAL-BURNER a preacher who is up to the minute and pleasing in every way → 1950 African-American
► COVE-AUTEM a preacher, a parson → M19 sl.
► COWBOY PREACHER an unprofessional, part-time lay preacher → 1967 Amer. dial.
► CRACKERJACK PREACHER an unprofessional part-time lay preacher → 1970 Amer. dial.
► CUSHION-CUFFER a preacher who indulges in violent action → 1683 obs.
► CUSHION-THUMPER a preacher who indulges in violent action → a1643
► DUSTMAN an energetic, fanatic preacher; a preacher who uses violent action → 1877 sl.
► EXHORTER a lay preacher → 1843 Amer. dial.
► FLEET-FOOTED PREACHER an unprofessional, part-time lay preacher → 1971 Amer. dial.
► GLORY-GRINDER a preacher → 1878 Aust. sl.
► GOSPEL SHARK a preacher; a parson; a goody-goody or sanctimonious person → 1897 Amer. dial.
► GOSPEL SHARP a preacher; a parson; a goody-goody or sanctimonious person → 1872 Amer. dial.
► GOSPEL SHOOTER a preacher; a parson; a goody-goody or sanctimonious person → 1900 Amer. dial.
► HATCHET an uneducated, part-time lay preacher, generally rather poor → 1949 Amer. dial.
► JACKLEG 1. an incompetent, unskilled or unprincipled worker or professional person, esp. a quack doctor, a  crooked lawyer, or a hypocritical preacher → M19 US sl.
2. an itinerant preacher → 20C US sl.
► JACK-LEGGED PREACHER an unprofessional, part-time lay preacher → 1967 Amer. dial.
► JAKELEG PREACHER an unprofessional, part-time lay preacher → 1969 Amer. dial.
► JIMSON-WEED PREACHER an inept, incompetent, or disreputable preacher → 1953 Amer. dial.
► LOCAL DICK a local preacher → 1892 Eng. dial.
► LOCAL MINISTER a part-time preacher, esp. a Methodist layman licensed to preach in a specified region → 1965 Amer. dial.
► LOCAL PREACHER a part-time preacher, esp. a Methodist layman licensed to preach in a specified region → 1834 Amer. dial.
► LOCUS PREACHER a local preacher → 1922 Amer. dial.
► MISSIONAR an itinerant preacher → 1828 Sc.
► MONEY-CALLED PREACHER a professional preacher who would find some other work if he was not paid well → 1966 Amer. dial.
► OLD-FIELD PREACHER an old-fashioned rural preacher → 1904 Amer. dial.
► ONE-GALLUS PREACHER an unprofessional, part-time lay preacher → 1966 Amer. dial.
► ONE-HORSE PREACHER an unprofessional, part-time lay preacher → 1966 Amer. dial.
► PRATER an itinerant, bogus preacher → L17 sl.
► PULPIT MAN a preacher → 1581
► PULPIT POUNDER a preacher, esp. one who gives vehement or impassioned sermons; also, an intemperate or declamatory speaker → 1859 sl., often depreciative
► PULPITARIAN a preacher → 1654
► PULPIT-CUFFER a Bible-pounding preacher → 19C Brit. colloq.
► PULPITEER a preacher by profession → 1635 usually disparaging
► PULPITER a preacher by profession → 1635 usually disparaging
► READER a preacher who reads his sermon → 1891 Sc.
► REGULAR PREACHER a travelling preacher among the Wesleyans or Primitive Methodists → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SCALDABANCO a  warm disputant or preacher; a hot-headed declaimer or Puritan; an argumentative person → a1670 obs.
► SCAREHEAD a puritanical religious preacher → 1900s UK criminals’ sl.
► SKY PILOT a clergyman, a preacher → 1882 Amer. dial.
► SKY WRITER a clergyman, a preacher → 1965 Amer. dial.
► SOUL-SNATCHER a preacher, a missionary → L19 sl.
► SOUL-SNAVELLER a preacher, a missionary → L19 sl.
► STRAWBERRY-PREACHER a non-resident preacher; one who visited his cure only once a year → 1904 sl. (Bk.)
► TABLE TAPPER an unprofessional, part-time lay preacher → 1949 Amer. dial.
► TENT-READER one who reads the service from a ‘tent’ → 1715 Sc.
► YARD-AXE ► YARD-AXE PREACHER an unprofessional, part-time lay preacher → 1902 Amer. dial.

VERBS
► DOCUMENTIZE to preach, to moralize → 1877 Eng. dial.
► GLORY-HALLELUJAH to speak in the manner of an evangelist preacher → 1874 Amer. dial.
► ITINERATE to travel from place to place preaching; spec. of a Methodist minister, to preach to the various congregations within the circuit to which he is appointed, and to go periodically from circuit to circuit as appointed, (usually) every three years → 1775
► TEACH to preach → 1792 Sc. obs.