devil dodger

English

Alternative forms
  • devil-dodger

Noun

devil dodger (plural devil dodgers)

  1. (informal) A clergyman, especially a military chaplain.
    • 1914, G. K. Chesterton, The Donnington Affair‎:
      Usually I don't trust devil dodgers — not much. But you've got a decent mug on you, and I'm going to trust you.
    • 2013, Ian Hislop, Nick Newman, The Wipers Times, BBC:
      You damned devil dodgers are going to undermine the whole war!
  2. (informal, obsolete) A person who sometimes attends church and sometimes the Dissenter's meetinghouse.

References
  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
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