pope's nose

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Noun

pope's nose (plural popes' noses)

1. (idiomatic) The tail end piece of a cooked fowl (chicken, turkey etc.).
   • 1855, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 7, in The Rose and the Ring:

     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.

Synonyms

• bishop's nose
• parson's nose
• pygostyle
• sultan's nose

Related terms

• pope's eye (steak)

Translations

tail piece

Italian: boccone del prete, mitra (it) m Japanese: ぼんぼち (bonbochi) Spanish: rabadilla del pollo f, chunchucuyo m (colloquial, El Salvador)