ProphetesAI is thinking...
popinjay
Answers
MindMap
Loading...
Sources
POPINJAY Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
a strutting supercilious person. Did you know? Popinjays and parrots are birds of a feather. Popinjay, from the Middle French word papegai, is the original ...
www.merriam-webster.com
www.merriam-webster.com
Popinjay - Definition, Meaning & Synonyms - Vocabulary.com
A popinjay is a person who's both talkative and cocky, who struts around chattering like a parrot. Fittingly, it's also an old-fashioned word meaning parrot.
www.vocabulary.com
www.vocabulary.com
Popinjay (sport) - Wikipedia
Popinjay or papingo (an old word for parrot, designating a painted bird), also called pole archery, is a shooting sport that can be performed with either ...
en.wikipedia.org
en.wikipedia.org
popinjay
popinjay (ˈpɒpɪndʒeɪ) Forms: see below. [In ME. earliest forms a. OF. (and mod.F.) papegai (12th c.), papingay (13th c. in Godef.), AF. also papeiaye (= -jaye) (1355 in Royal Wills), = Pr. papagai, Sp. papagayo, Pg. papagaio; also MHG. papagey, Ger. papagei MLG. papegoie Du. papegaai. OF. had also p...
Oxford English Dictionary
prophetes.ai
Popinjay - Wikipedia
Popinjay · Old-fashioned term for a parrot (cf. · A dandy or foppish person · Popinjay (sport), a shooting sport that can be performed with either rifles or ...
en.wikipedia.org
en.wikipedia.org
POPINJAY | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary
someone, usually a man, who is too interested in and proud of their own appearance: He regarded his rival as a conceited popinjay.
dictionary.cambridge.org
dictionary.cambridge.org
Popinjay - World Wide Words
This deeply insulting word for a vain or conceited person, one given to pretentious displays, is now rather outmoded or literary. A good example ...
www.worldwidewords.org
www.worldwidewords.org
POPINJAY definition in American English - Collins Dictionary
3 senses: 1. a conceited, foppish, or excessively talkative person 2. → an archaic word for parrot 3. the figure of a parrot.... Click for more definitions.
www.collinsdictionary.com
www.collinsdictionary.com
POPINJAY Definition & Meaning | Dictionary.com
Popinjay definition: a person given to vain, pretentious displays and empty chatter; coxcomb; fop.. See examples of POPINJAY used in a ...
www.dictionary.com
www.dictionary.com
popinjay - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
(archery) A target to shoot at, typically stuffed with feathers or plumage. [from 16th c.] (UK) The green woodpecker, Picus ...
en.wiktionary.org
en.wiktionary.org
popinjay
popinjay/ˈpɔpɪndʒeɪ; `pɑpɪnˌdʒe/ n(dated derog 旧, 贬) conceited person, esp a man who is vain about his clothes; fop 骄矜的人; (尤指)衣著上追求虚荣的人; 花花公子; 纨绔子弟.
牛津英汉双解词典
prophetes.ai
Popinjay (sport)
Popinjay archery is popular in Belgium, but is less common elsewhere. Many Belgian clubs have permanently erected popinjay masts. Festival of Popinjay
The Festival of Popinjay is an old British tradition held on the first Sunday in May.
wikipedia.org
en.wikipedia.org
Peter Pett (shipwright)
his second wife, Elizabeth Thornton, sister of Captain Thornton of the Navy, he had also two sons – Phineas, and Noah, who in 1594 was master of the Popinjay
wikipedia.org
en.wikipedia.org