"Mess-John" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From mess (“mass”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Mess-Johns",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Mess-John (plural Mess-Johns)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1790 November, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. […], London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "I should only stipulate that these new Mess-Johns in robes and coronets should keep some sort of bounds in the democratic and levelling principles which are expected from their titled pulpits.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A domestic chaplain."
      ],
      "id": "en-Mess-John-en-noun-vI5eWNQL",
      "links": [
        [
          "domestic",
          "domestic"
        ],
        [
          "chaplain",
          "chaplain"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) A domestic chaplain."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Mess-John"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "From mess (“mass”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Mess-Johns",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Mess-John (plural Mess-Johns)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1790 November, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. […], London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "I should only stipulate that these new Mess-Johns in robes and coronets should keep some sort of bounds in the democratic and levelling principles which are expected from their titled pulpits.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A domestic chaplain."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "domestic",
          "domestic"
        ],
        [
          "chaplain",
          "chaplain"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) A domestic chaplain."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Mess-John"
}