Pape
/peɪp/informal (chiefly Scottish and Irish English (northern )). Usually derogatory and offensive
noun
A Roman Catholic; = papist. Also as adjective: Roman Catholic.
Origin
1920s; earliest use found in Sinclair Lewis (1885–1951), novelist. Shortened from papist, perhaps after pope.
- oysterishness
- oyster knife
- oyster-laying
- oysterless
- oyster-like
- oyster liquor
- oyster loaf
- oysterman
- oyster mushroom
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- oysterous
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- oyster piece
- oyster plant
- oyster-planting
- oyster rake
- oyster roast
- oyster sauce
- oyster scale
- oyster seed
- oyster shell
- oyster shell scale
- oyster shell veneer
- oyster shell veneering
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