pope's nose
pope's nose noun: the tail end piece of a cooked fowl (chicken, turkey etc.).
Noun
pope's nose (plural popes' noses)
- 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
- Synonyms:
- bishop's nose, parson's nose, pygostyle, sultan's nose
Synonyms of pope's nose
Forms of pope's nose
| plural | popes' noses |
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Questions about pope's nose
- What does pope's nose mean?
- Pope's nose means the tail end piece of a cooked fowl (chicken, turkey etc.).
- What part of speech is pope's nose?
- Pope's nose is a noun.
- What is the plural of pope's nose?
- The plural of pope's nose is popes' noses.
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