parson-power
noun
1 Humorous the power or rate of work of a parson in a certain task, such as eating.
2Power exercised by parsons.
Origin
Early 19th century; earliest use found in Maria Edgeworth (1768–1849), novelist and educationist.
- simple machine
- simple majority
- simple-minded
- simple-mindedly
- simple-mindedness
- simpleness
- simples
- simple sentence
- Simple Simon
- simple time
- simpleton
- simplex
- simplex method
- simpliciter
- simplicity
- simplification
- simplify
- simplism
- simplistic
- simplistically
- Simplon
- simply
- Simpson Desert
- Simpson, O. J.
- Simpson, Sir James Young