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PAIP, n.³ Also pape. Sc. forms and usages of Eng. Pope.

1. As in Eng.Sc. 1818 Scott H. Midlothian ix.:
I had forgot what an ill will ye had aye at the Paip.Fif. 1827 W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd 15:
Sorrow gin Paip was boil'd to taivers, And I'd a platefu' o' the bree!Rnf. 1876 D. Gilmour Pen' Folk 60:
Ithers fin mair comfort under Prelacy, and thoosan's, like ships bedit amang san', can get peace only frae the Pape o' Rome.m.Sc. 1917 J. Buchan Poems 61:
It's no that I'm chief wi' the Pape, But I owe the warld to yon bell.Sc. 1934 Sc. N. & Q. (June) 82:
Sax feet for the paip, An' sax for the pauper.

Derivs.: (1) paperie, papp'ry, popery (Ayr., Kcb. 1965); (2) papish, (i) adj., popish; (ii) n., a Roman Catholic, derogatory (Sc. 1825 Jam.; Uls. 1953 Traynor; Ags., Ayr., Kcb., Uls. 1965). Also in Eng. dial. Also pa(i)pisher, -ur, id.; (3) papist, in comb. papist-stroke, a jocular term for a crucifix (Abd. 1825 Jam.). The second element may represent Troke, q.v.(1) Sc. 1719 Ramsay Poems (S.T.S.) I. 185:
Stage-Plays, quoth Dunce, are unco' Things indeed! They're Papery, Papery! — cry'd his Nibour neist.Lnk. a.1779 D. Graham Writings (1883) II. 134:
They were braw markets on the Sundays i' the time o' Paepery. We had nae ministers than but priests.Sc. 1818 Scott Rob Roy xix.:
It was na for luve o' Paperie — na, na! — nane could ever say that o' the trades o' Glasgow.(2) (i) Slk. 1820 Hogg Tales (1874) 276:
The rebel crew, and their papish prince.Kcb. 1898 Crockett Standard Bearer xiv.:
He had been a Papish priest some-gate in his youth. (ii) Lnk. 1806 J. Black Falls of Clyde 109:
That's the Pope's doin' now — It's him sends here, Thae bodies, to put Christian folks in fear; An, mak them papisher.Sc. 1823 Scott Peveril xxi.:
This plot . . . that they are pursuing the Papishers about.Dmf. 1826 H. Duncan W. Douglas III. xiii.:
The Papishes, sakeless bodies,'ill nae doubt try to get in their han'.Slk. 1835 Hogg Tales (1874) 587:
I ken you to be the maist determmed an' abominable Papishur in a' the British dominions.Kcb. 1900 Crockett Stickit Minister's Wooing 178:
The Papishes make ower great a to-do about her for my liking!Arg. 1917 A. W. Blue Quay Head Tryst 176:
He was lost in the thirties off the Craig, and Hughie had it as he lay that the Papishes had drooned him.

2. A member of the Roman Catholic Church (m. and s.Sc. 1965), a shortened form of papist or papish.Rnf. 1935 L. Kerr Woman of Glenshiels iv.:
Mary . . . wouldn't click with a “pape” or a boy who whistled after them.wm.Sc.¹ 1950:
Pape is a common term in sw.Sc. and, like “papist” is used in a derogatory sense.ne.Sc. 1952 John R. Allan North-East Lowlands of Scotland (1974) 112:
Old Ronald knew about the translation from Mortlach: "Aye, the Cathedral was first biggit in anither place. But coorse [evil] men troublet the Bishop - he was the minister at that time - and, being a Pape, he workit a miracle. wm.Sc. 1979 Robin Jenkins Fergus Lamont 11:
'Are you a Pape?' I asked. 'What a nasty word. If you mean Catholic, say Catholic.' Sc. 2000 Herald (26 Jan) 15:
A Scottish Executive spokesman has denied, however, that the spectre of sectarianism led to the Scottish data-collectors deciding not to ask us whether we are Proddies or Papes, Muslims or Hindus.