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Sound-switching reverend
Answer for the clue "Sound-switching reverend ", 7 letters:
spooner
Alternative clues for the word spooner
- Rev. William who originated the phrase "a blushing crow"
- Inadvertent creator of phrases like "well-boiled icicle"
- Legendary speech garbler
- Reverend credited with saying "The Lord is a shoving leopard"
- Sound-swapping reverend
- "The weight of rages will press hard upon the employer" speaker
- "May I sew you to another sheet?" speaker
- Word-botching Oxford don
Word definitions for spooner in dictionaries
Gazetteer
Word definitions in Gazetteer
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context dated English) Person who engages in kissing and petting.
Usage examples of spooner.
Vanderpool partners - probably the timid Spooner - to lure Kemper here for slaughter.
With Spooner and Brand out of the way - with Mark Kemper murdered, too - how many cuts will there be on the profit?
Convinced by the news that had been brought to him by Wartig the night before - that Spooner was the masked boss of the art racket - Kemper hoped to pick up information that might lead to the new hiding place of the loot.
Warned by the note from Jordan, Brand was certain that Spooner and Kemper were working together to freeze him out of the art racket.
If the redhead was lying about her date with Spooner - if she tried to pull a fast one - Kemper was ready to clip her wings.
Mark Kemper entered the room from the same direction Spooner and his red-haired guide had appeared.
Alongside Spooner lay a man whom Kemper had refused to believe guilty of crime - even after Spooner had desperately tried to put the blame where it rightly belonged.
The faces of Mark Kemper, of Spooner, of the guilty Peggy Dawson were waxen with death.
His move brought him closer to the alcove beyond which was the private office where Spooner and Brand attended to their affairs.
If Spooner had not yet arrived, The Shadow was going to take a quick look around.
The screen covered part of the alcove that led to the private office of Spooner and Brand.
Except for Lamont Cranston and the nervously smiling Spooner, the office was empty!
CHAPTER V THE RED-HAIRED GIRL THE SHADOW pretended to be unconscious of the scrutiny that the flustered Spooner gave him.
Cranston looked apologetic as he turned in time to see Spooner hurrying back into the office.
He intended to see the face of the unknown criminal who used Spooner and Brand for a respectable front.