Swaddler

a Wesley an Methodist; a name originally given to members of that body by the Irish mob; said to have originated with an ignorant Romanist, to whom the words of the English Bible were a novelty, and who, hearing one of John Wesley’s preachers mention the swaddling clothes of the Holy Infant, in a sermon on Christmas-day at Dublin, shouted out in derision, “A SWADDLER ! a SWADDLER !” as if the whole story were the preacher’s invention.— Southey’s Life of Wesley , vol. ii. p. 109. See introductory article .