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  • noun Plural form of papish.

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Examples

  • “But how can he have any right to make us papishes?” says the landlord.

    The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling 2004

  • Armagh the splendid behung with corpses of papishes.

    Ulysses 2003

  • A gentleman (who keeps his greyhound and gun, and one would think might know better) told me, he supposed they were papishes, for their names were not English: 'Then,' said he, 'why do you call live people "toasts"?'

    The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899 George A. Aitken

  • "Ask me another, Captain," said I. "But a wise woman would know where to find friends, and Stafford's full of papishes, burn 'em!"

    The Yeoman Adventurer George W. Gough

  • The lodge of Diamond in Armagh the splendid behung with corpses of papishes.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • A lower croak, that seemed to end with the words "black papishes," came through the closed door.

    Mount Music Martin Ross 1888

  • "Some o 'the blood-hounds pinked fellows, I believe, but then they were only rebels and Pap-papishes."

    Valentine M'Clutchy, The Irish Agent The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two William Carleton 1831

  • Christian-like supposition that, being nothing but French papishes, they would never pay.

    The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3 Fanny Burney 1796

  • "But how can he have any right to make us papishes?" says the landlord.

    History of Tom Jones, a Foundling Henry Fielding 1730

  • -- some sort o 'papishes; -- leastwise, they has prayers in the church every day, and doesn't preach the Gospel, no how, I hears by my wife, and she knows all about it, along of going to meeting.

    Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography Charles Kingsley 1847

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