Unnoticed sense of "Pope"

[Erik Hoover]

Un-noticed but not un-noted:

"I've heard flogging your bishop, and flogging your dog, but never
doggin.



Also:  put a helmet on the soldier, polish the pope, get the German

soldier  marching."



[Bill Mullins on ADS-L, 11 Dec 2004]






On Sep 24, 2007, at 1:39 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:

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> 1724 _Laugh and Be Fat_  (London: A.W.) 89: [H]e found that she had
> burned his _Pope_...and that instead of a _Maiden-head_, she had
> given him for his five Guineas, a confounded _Clap_.
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>   Cf. "beat the bishop" in HDAS.
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>   JL
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