[Fictionary] pink tooth results

[Fran Poodry]

Um, me?  I don't recall any such thing!
-Fran

On 8/8/08 11:17 AM, "eLLioTT morEton" <emoreton at alum.swarthmore.edu> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> 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?
> Or is this just another astounding fictionary coincidence, like when
> Hutch's word ``eruke'' turned out to also have a genuine yurt-related
> meaning, or when Fran caused a tie by voting for Ralph Nader, rather than
> a def, in November/December 2000?
> 
> em