subs. (services).—A clergyman: see DEVIL-DODGER. [From the Portuguese.]
1888. Chambers’s Journal, 14 Jan., 18. The chaplain, who on board ship is known by a a thousand more or less irreverent names—PADRE, sky-pilot, etc.
subs. (services).—A clergyman: see DEVIL-DODGER. [From the Portuguese.]
1888. Chambers’s Journal, 14 Jan., 18. The chaplain, who on board ship is known by a a thousand more or less irreverent names—PADRE, sky-pilot, etc.
