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UK
/pˈɒpɪndʒˌeɪ/
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NOUN
- an archaic term for a parrot
- a vain and talkative person (chatters like a parrot)
How To Use popinjay In A Sentence
- Hotspur's picture of this “popinjay” with pouncet-box in hand, and The Man Shakespeare
- _Item_, a pair of hose of popinjay green (they be well called popinjay) of thirty shillings. Joyce Morrell's Harvest The Annals of Selwick Hall
- A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl. Live-love-create
- Hotspur's picture of this "popinjay" with pouncet-box in hand, and The Man Shakespeare
- Words come to mind that I can't print in their entirety, that the tribunal is full of petty popinjay chickens**ts. On Public Universities And Guns
- Might Hooper and Seidler have considered making Logue do the "popinjay" speech by The Guardian World News
- Obviously, the fellow had no breeding, no refinement, nothing - he was merely a perfumed popinjay in a ridiculous suit.
- These weedy fly-bitten popinjays, these pribbling clumsy clay-brained miscreants - how dare they think they can share the same job title as me?
- In 2005, George Galloway, UK Respect MP for Bethnal Green and Bow, and ardent "pro-life" campaigner, famously referred to his arch-nemesis, Christopher Hitchens, as a "drink-soaked former Trotskyist popinjay. Archive 2009-03-01
- Leftists accused him of "betrayal," it continued, and quoted one who had described him as a "drink-soaked former Trotskyist popinjay". Christopher Hitchens: He died too young, with too much left to say | Nick Cohen
