1888. Black, Houseboat, viii. While some of the small fry popped out their heads to have a look.
1892. Chevalier, Little Nipper. Let's pop into the 'Broker's Arms' and 'ave a drop o' beer. Ibid., Wot Cher! Your rich Uncle Tom of Camberwell, Popped off recent, which it ain't a sell.
Pope, subs. (old: now provincial).—A
term of contempt: e.g.,
'What a pope of a thing!'
Also, drunk as a pope = very
drunk (Benedict XII., a glutton
and a wine-bibber gave rise to the
expression, Bibamus papaliter):
see Drinks and Screwed; to
be (or play) pope-holy = to be
sanctimonious; to play the prig
(q.v.) or hypocrite; to know
no more than the pope of
Rome = to know nothing.—Ray
(1670). Ray also gives, 'If you
would be a pope, you must think
of nothing else.'
1360. Chaucer, Rom. of Rose [Works (1662), iii.]. Another thing was doen . . . That seemed like an ipocrite, And it was cleped pope holy.
1362. Langland, Piers Plowman. sig. T, ii. (1561). And none so singuler by himselfe, nor so pope holy.
d.1460. Lydgate, Prohemy of a Mariage [MS., Harl., 372, 51]. And for popholy and nyce loke wel aboute.
1509. Barclay, Ship of Fooles (1570), 57. Ouer sad or proude, disceitfull and pope holy.
d.1529. Skelton, A Replycation [Dyce, i. 208]. Popholy and penysshe presumpcion. Ibid., Garlande of Laurell, 611. Fals forgers of mony, for kownnage atteintid, pope holy ypocrytis.
d.1536. Tyndale, Ans. Sir T. More [Parker Soc. (1850), 36]. There be pope-holy, which . . . resist the righteousness of God in Christ.
1620. Westward for Smelts [Halliwell]. He, having no answere, began to curse and ban, bidding a pope on all women.
1706. Oxford Jests, 93. They bid him read. 'Read! truly, my Lord,' says he, 'I can read no more than the Pope of Rome.'
Pope-of-Rome, subs. phr. (rhyming).—Home
Poperine-pear, subs. phr.
(venery).—The penis: see Prick.
1595. Shakspeare, Romeo and Juliet, ii. 1. Oh, Romeo! that she were, oh, that she were an open arse, thou a poperin pear!
1632. Rowley, Woman Never Vexed [Dodsley, Old Plays (Hazlitt), xii.]. I requested him to pull me A Katherine pear, and had I not look'd to him, He would have mistook and given me a popperin.
1822. Nares, Glossary, s.v. Poperin . . . In the quarto edition of Romeo and Juliet was a passage, afterwards very properly omitted, containing a foolish and coarse quibble on the name.
Pope's-eye, subs. phr. (common).—The
thread of fat in a leg of
mutton.
1852. Shirley Brooks, Miss Violet. The oratorical undertaker having made a most successful joke about the pope's-eye on a leg of Protestant mutton.
1869. Blackmore, Lorna Doone, ii. You should have . . . the pope's-eye from the mutton.
Pope's- (or Turk's-) head, subs.
phr. (common).—A round broom,
of bristles or feathers, with a long
handle.
d.1849. Edgeworth, Love and Law, i. v. You're no witch if you don't see a cobweb as long as my arm. Run, run, O child, for the pope's-head.
1852. Savage, Reuben Medlicott (1864), i. iii. You are not going to send the boy to school with this ridiculous head of hair; why, his schoolfellows will use him for a pope's head.
Pope's-nose, subs. phr. (common).—A
chicken's rump: also Parson's-nose.—Grose
(1785).
Pope's-size, subs. phr. (trade).—See
quot.
