| 释义 |
Pape Sc. and Ulster.|peɪp|
Also pape.
[f. pope n.1 or as shortening of papist.]
An opprobrious term for a Roman Catholic.
1935L. Kerr Woman of Glenshiels iv. 56 Mary{ddd}wouldn't click with a ‘pape’ or a boy who whistled after them. 1939Joyce Finnegans Wake iii. 440 Skim over Through Hell with the Papes (mostly boys) by the divine comic Denti Alligator. 1957Bulletin (Glasgow) 11 Oct. 15/3 Lucas had been drinking. When charged he said, ‘I set the house on fire to burn these Papes and Niggers.’ 1968J. Braine Crying Game v. 118 Adam's a good Catholic... It's smart to be a Pape now. Ibid. xii. 217 When I marry..it must be a Catholic... I mean, who else would I marry but a Pape? 1970G. M. Fraser General danced at Dawn 48 Years later, when he led a famous league side out to play Celtic, this same corporal, having said his Hail-Mary and fingered his crucifix, instructed his team, ‘Awright, fellas, let's get stuck intae these Papes.’ 1972Listener 7 Sept. 304/3 Gerry Fitt has been bawling about the number of Roman Catholics..who have been found shot dead... Gerry deduces that the dead papes have been killed by Protestant guns. 1974Socialist Worker 2 Nov. 11/1 During my childhood it was constantly hammered home to me that I should be a good boy at school, that I shouldn't question what my elders told me, and that I should join the Orange Lodge because the ‘Papes’ are bastards. |