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pope's nose en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Meanings

1. (idiomatic) The tail end piece of a cooked fowl (chicken, turkey etc.).
   • He took heart and began to mend immediately; and gobbled up all the jelly, and picked the last bone of the chicken—drumsticks, merry-thought, sides’-bones, back, pope’s nose, and all. 1855, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 7, in The Rose and the Ring:
   • —There’s a tasty bit here we call the pope’s nose. If any lady or gentleman... He held a piece of fowl up on the prong of the carvingfork. 1916, James Joyce, chapter I, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC:

Forms

Relateds

pope's eye

Synonyms

sultan's nose · pygostyle · parson's nose · bishop's nose

Translations (5)

ja ぼんぼち (tail piece) · it boccone del prete (tail piece) · es chunchucuyo (tail piece) · es rabadilla del pollo (tail piece) · it mitra (tail piece)