pewmate

noun

pewmate

noun

Etymology From pew + -mate.

1

One who shares the same pew.

We’ll have to prod our snoozing pewmates when to sit and stand; they’ll have to rein in their zealots.2007 July 29, Lawrence Downes, “The Pope Reopens a Portal to Eternity, via the 1950s”, in New York Times:

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