[Fictionary] pink tooth results

[Jacob Mattison]

> About these two amazing definitions:
> 
> > pink tooth of mummery, n. Pejorative phrase used in Restoration
> >     England to describe a supposed Catholic conspiracy to gain
> >     influence in Parliament.  "Pink tooth" was an idiom used to
> >     describe a child's first tooth, and Catholics were seen as
> >     just beginning to have enough "bite" to be dangerous.
> >
> >     4 points (2 David 2 Judith)
> >     by: Jacob
> 
> > pink tooth of mummery, n. Low-Protestant term of abuse for the
> >     Church of England; the Catholic Church was "mummery," and
> >     the Anglican Church an infant version--"pink tooth"--of the
> >     Catholic.  Largely archaic, although still in patchy use in
> >     Northern Ireland.
> >
> >     1 point (Jim)
> >     by: David
> 
> I have to ask, is there some historical or literary pink-related, 
> tooth-related, or mummery-related thing that yall are both alluding to? 

I can't speak for David (who may have installed a keyboard logger in my brain, I suppose) but looks like coincidence to me.  I was thinking of the commonplace pejorative "Papist mummery" used against Catholicism, and made up the rest.

Jacob