pope's nose
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pope's nose (plural popes' noses)
- (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.
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- pope's eye (steak)
Translations
tail piece
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