pope's nose

plural popes' noses

1. idiomaticThe tail end piece of a cooked fowl (chicken, turkey etc.).

   —There’s a tasty bit here we call the pope’s nose. If any lady or gentleman... He held a piece of fowl up on the prong of the carvingfork.

   1916, James Joyce, chapter I, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC

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   He took heart and began to mend immediately; and gobbled up all the jelly, and picked the last bone of the chicken—drumsticks, merry-thought, sides’-bones, back, pope’s nose, and all.

   1855, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 7, in The Rose and the Ring

   Synonyms: bishop's nose, parson's nose, pygostyle, sultan's nose