Green’s Dictionary of Slang

see skypilot under sky n.¹

(US) moralizing drivel.

1884

(con. c.1840) ‘Mark Twain’ Huckleberry Finn 213: Music is a good thing; and after all that soul-butter and hogwash I never see it freshen up things so.

see separate entry.

a clergyman.

1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1848		Flash Dict. in Sinks of London Laid Open.

a clergyman, or one who acts as such.

c.1698		B.E. Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Soul-driver a Parson.
1725		New Canting Dict. [as cit. c.1698].
1737, 1759, 1760, 1776		Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. [as cit. c.1698].
1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1809		G. Andrewes Dict. Sl. and Cant.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1835		G. Kent Modern Flash Dict.
1848		Flash Dict. in Sinks of London Laid Open.
1858		A. Mayhew Paved with Gold 279: Listen to the preacher [...] what a rattling soul-driver he’d have made, wouldn’t he.

a member of the Salvation Army.

1909

(ref. to 1883) in J. Ware Passing Eng. of the Victorian Era.

a preacher, a missionary.

1885		Bulletin (Sydney) 3 Jan. 4/1: Captain Miller, the soul-snaveller in charge of the engagement, thus reports progress in the war cry of December 20: – [...].
1903		J. London People of the Abyss 116: The ‘soul-snatchers’ (as these men call all religious propagandists), should study the physiological basis of psychology a little.

(UK Und.) a Methodist minister.

c.1850

Duncombe New and Improved Flash Dict.