Talk:bishop

Catholic?
A bishop is not limited to the Catholic Church. Many Christian denominations have bishops. Heck, the Episcopalian Church got its name from episcopus, the Latin word for bishop.

Oh, never mind. Upon second reading I noticed it mentions other denominations. [someone else]
 * Nope, you were right the first time. There is nothing whatsoever that makes the Catholic use predominate here: if we're just doing things by seniority, it would be "a Greek Orthodox ~". Cf. the much better-balanced OED treatment. — LlywelynII  05:18, 18 June 2014 (UTC)

Dutch
There are two lines for the Dutch translations. Could someone combine these, making any necessary modifications. &mdash; Paul G 12:12, 6 Jul 2004 (UTC)

bishop
Rfv-sense "sex toy". Really? And if so: any sex toy, or a specific type of sex toy? - -sche (discuss) 02:07, 30 May 2013 (UTC)
 * I'll bet derived from the chess-piece sense. DCDuring TALK 02:32, 30 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Widespread abuse. DCDuring TALK 02:49, 30 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Failed. — Ungoliant (Falai) 14:15, 20 September 2013 (UTC)

Looking gift horses in their mouths
Many modern sources link "bishoping" [sic] horse teeth to an eponymous "Mr. Bishop". The OED, which should know better, does it too. However, no source ever provides a credible account or name of the guy and it seems almost certain that it originally referred only to burning some color into the teeth and (as explained by the nice 18th century source) derived from "bishopping the milk". Now, we just need a good explanation for where that came from... — LlywelynII  12:16, 19 June 2014 (UTC)