Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Ulster) a Roman Catholic.

1994		D. Healy A Goat’s Song 11: Then the girls learned at school how their father had been teaching manners to popeheads .
1994		V. Sayers Distance Between Us 270: When I was a kid, we’d get a popehead and beat him silly, wouldn’t we?
2005		R. Kitchen Seeds of Evil 480: Yourself and the popehead go over to England and ask a few questions about the wee soldier.

the lymphatic gland surrounded with fat, found in a leg of mutton.

1852		S. Brooks Miss Violet and her Offers (1875) 308: The oratorical undertaker having made a most successful joke about the Pope’s Eye on a leg of Protestant mutton.
1869		R.D. Blackmore Lorna Doone (1923) 432: You should have the hot new milk, and the pope’s eye from the mutton.
1873		Sl. Dict. 258: Pope’s-eye a peculiar little part in a leg of mutton, much esteemed by lovers of that joint.

the rump of a chicken or turkey.

c.1786		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue ms. additions n.p.: Popes Nose. The Rump of a Turkey.
1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue (2nd edn) .
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1864, 1867, 1870		Hotten Sl. Dict.
1897		Cornishman 22 July 2/1: The cooked tails of poultry resemble some forms of mitres. Hence we get Pope’s nose (in Ireland) and Parson’s nose in England.
1900		Reno (NV) Eve. Gazette 28 Apr. 2/2: The rump of a fowl is the ‘pope’s,’ ‘parson’s’ or ‘bishop’s nose.’.
1926		Wood & Goddard Dict. Amer. Sl. 38: parson’s nose. Rear end of cooked fowl; also called pope’s nose, rabbi’s nose, Darwin’s nose.
1931		M. Sandoz ‘Sandhill Sundays’ in Botkin Folk-Say 309: ‘Mr. Gordon, what piece of the chicken will you have?’ ‘The Pope’s nose,’ replied the guest.
1940		M. de la Roche Whiteoak Heritage (1949) 20: It was annoying to see heedless Piers devouring those juicy bits [...] just north of the Pope’s nose.
1951		(con. 1941) E. Lambert Twenty Thousand Thieves 150: Can I have the Pope’s nose?
1963		G. Lambert Inside Daisy Clover (1966) 9: I wrote ‘My sister Gloria is the Pope’s nose’ on the wall of the girls’ john at school.
1970		L. Sanders Anderson Tapes 131: I like drumsticks and wings and the Pope’s nose.

see does a bear shit in the woods? Is the pope (a) Catholic? phr.

see put the devil into hell under devil n.