Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A spiritual father; a priest; specifically, the pope.
  • noun An American finch of the genus Cyanospiza or Pesserina, C. or P. ciris. Also called nonpareil and incomparable. See cut at painted finch, under painted.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete A spiritual father; specifically, the pope.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun painted bunting

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Examples

  • jgn risau. takde pape akan berlaku. i just sign aje.

    i'm done! 2009

  • jgn risau. takde pape akan berlaku. i just sign aje.

    Archive 2009-04-01 2009

  • All these officers who didn't really like me, who saw me as an upstart, a 'pape' and a 'short-arse', would still come to help me because I was a police officer in need of back-up.

    Both Sides of the Fence -A Life Under Cover Corbet, David 2002

  • ( 'pape' is Glasgow slang for a Catholic and/or the Pope).

    Both Sides of the Fence -A Life Under Cover Corbet, David 2002

  • The French nickname β€œla monnaie du pape” is amusing.

    sarcler - French Word-A-Day 2010

  • Hnatt pushed the 'pape away, and picked up the mail which had been delivered before dawn ... it had been some time since mailmen had crept out in daylight hours.

    Genre Fiction 2010

  • Final Fantasy, Zelda, Resident Evil, and more pape ...

    Archive 2009-03-01 2009

  • And when Richard pushes the 'pape aside and takes up his mail, we are clearly to accept as his own rumination that "it had been some time since mailmen crept out in daylight hours."

    Genre Fiction 2010

  • CAIR, along with 275,000 other nonprofit organizations nationwide, had a technical pape rwork issue related to past IRS filings β€” and like many other organizations, we were not notified in advance of the IRS' action, he said.

    Muslim charity CAIR scrutinized over missing IRS filings 2011

  • As for 'honesty' - the English nickname for "la monnaie du pape" - the seeds are completely visible through the transparent pods, so, the pods cannot hide anything ... hence, the air of honesty about them ...

    sarcler - French Word-A-Day 2010

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