1903 11 Feb. 10/1 Q. What is the most popular sport in England at the present day? A. Parson-bating.
1907 23 Sept. 2/3 A mere parson-baiting Hooligan or one whose universal major premiss is Everything a bishop does is wrong.
1935 40 461 The group of parson-baiting skeptics which Mr. Adams hails as typical of the new age.
1998 (Nexis) 21 Feb. 10 Philip van Straubenzee, still very much alive, is 86, plays tennis and once reckoned his hobby was parson baiting.