kirkgoer
nounEtymology From kirk + goer.
1
Scotland Someone who goes to kirk; a churchgoer.
- 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.1888, Robert Louis Stevenson, letter
- But this lady has the stern face of a kirk-goer.1976, Angela Carter, “My Father's House”, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage, published 2013, page 20: