popeling
English
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editEtymology
editNoun
editpopeling (plural popelings)
- A petty or deputy pope.
- An adherent of the pope.
- 1593, Christopher Marlowe, The Massacre at Paris:
- He takes his vantage on religion,
To plant the Pope and popelings in the realm
References
edit- “popeling”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.