papishern.
/ˈpeɪpᵻʃə/, U.S. /ˈpeɪpəʃər/, Scottish English /ˈpepᵻʃər/, Irish English /ˈpeːpəʃər/ derogatory. Now chiefly Scottish and Irish English (northern).
A Roman Catholic; = papist n. 1.
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papist1528
Romanist1534
Roman1537
Romist1543
papistic1545
popestant1549
flesh-maker1551
mass-monger1551
Romish1551
Pope catholicc1554
popeling1563
catholic1570
Romish Catholic1571
popera1577
Pope worshipper1579
papane1581
Roman Catholic1581
Cacolike1582
Cartholic1582
papisha1595
Babylonian1603
papal1611
popinian1613
Papalin1616
Romulist1620
papicolist1633
western1640
papagan1641
universalist1644
red-letter man1677
RC1691
Azymite1728
papalist1752
craw-thumper1786
catholicist1812
papisher1817
pontifical1832
Romanite1839
dogan1847
mickey1851
redneck1852
mackerel-snatcher1855
Latin1867
Romanensian1885
Roman candle1897
Mick1902
Mick Dooley1905
Mickey Doo1905
left-footer1911
Pape1927
right-footer1929
Doolan1940
tyke1941
Tim1958
mackerel-snapper1960
Teague1971
Mickey Doolan1972
1817 W. Scott Rob Roy (1830) II. xxi. 350 His honour likes the library. He's nane o' your Papishers, that delight in blinded ignorance.
1869 R. D. Blackmore Lorna Doone I. iii. 28 All that I could win out of him was that they were ‘murdering Papishers’, and little he cared to do with them.
1949 D. M. Davin Roads from Home iv. 58 I don't want to think I've slogged my guts out all these years for any little Papisher.
1986 P. O'Brian Reverse of Medal ii. 42 In being a papisher he is only following the example of all his English ancestors from the time Irish missionaries taught them their letters.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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