| 词汇 | forty-gallon baptists |
| 词源 | forty-gallon Baptists. A humorous historical term for peo- ple who believed one must be totally immersed in water to be properly baptized. Those who believed a symbolic sprinkling of water would do were called half-pint Baptists. |
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