What is "pope's nose"

Pope \Pope\ (p[=o]p), n. [AS. p[=a]pa, L. papa father, bishop. Cf. Papa, Papal.]

1. Any ecclesiastic, esp. a bishop. [Obs.]
   --Foxe.

2. The bishop of Rome, the head of the Roman Catholic Church. See Note under Cardinal.

3. A parish priest, or a chaplain, of the Greek Church.

4. (Zo["o]l.) A fish; the ruff.

   Pope Joan, a game at cards played on a round board with compartments.

   Pope's eye, the gland surrounded with fat in the middle of the thigh of an ox or sheep.
   --R. D. Blackmore.

   Pope's nose, the rump, or uropygium, of a bird. See Uropygium.

   to be more Catholic than the Pope to adhere more stringently to Roman Catholic practices and doctrine than is required by church doctrine; -- usually used in a negative sense to mean, to be excessively pious.

n. (context idiomatic English) The tail end piece of a cooked chicken.

n. the tail of a dressed fowl [syn: parson's nose]