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  • noun dialect, dated A Methodist.

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Examples

  • What pleased her was to make Daffady talk of him -- Daffady, whose contempt as a "Methody" for "paid priests" made him a sure ally.

    Helbeck of Bannisdale — Volume II Humphry Ward 1885

  • “Well, I didna know as the Methody women war like ye, for there’s Will Maskery’s wife, as they say’s a big

    Adam Bede 2004

  • Born in November 1936 on Belfast's Lisburn Road, Samuel Trevor Hanna was educated at the local Ulsterville and Fane Street Public Elementary Schools and the city's Methodist College and was a Past President of "Methody" Old Boys 'Association.

    Press Gazette Latest News 2010

  • "Hello, Spike; hello, Methody," she greeted the two frost-rimed men who were bending over the burden on their sled.

    THE MAN ON THE OTHER BANK 2010

  • It helps that Irving is played by Richard Gere, a much-underrated actor who learned, as the villain of Internal Affairs, to harness his Methody contortions and underplay slyly.

    GreenCine Daily: The Hoax. 2007

  • I'm off now to write a post containing the words Methody, schoolgirls and panties.

    Searching high and low Johnny Guitar 2008

  • I'm off now to write a post containing the words Methody, schoolgirls and panties.

    Archive 2008-11-01 Johnny Guitar 2008

  • Fergus told him with a very straight face that he would not chuse to share so much as a Glass of Wine with Mr. Robinson (which he could not, Mr. Robinson being Methody and against Drink), and the Gentleman took this to mean what he wished, and went away satisfied, and gave Fergus a Purse of Money.

    A Breath of Snow and Ashes Gabaldon, Diana 2005

  • He sacrifices it all to the honor of his heart, first maggot that cometh into it; and he done the very same with Rickon Goold, the Methody galley-raker.

    Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004

  • Methody, like Seth, wouldna be a bad match for her.

    Adam Bede 2004

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