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popinjay::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | parrot |
Examples of popinjay
popinjay
I believe he and Gates have little patience for the insulting popinjay.
From the battleland.blogs.time.com
Two popinjay jerks with an orchard of debts mock the structure of government at its very apex.
From the online.wsj.com
Is it class prejudice or are you some popinjay upstart?
From the guardian.co.uk
This silver-haired popinjay is self-absorbed to the nth degree, but he's larger than life, and a wonderfully shameless self-dramatizer.
From the online.wsj.com
Even beyond his classics against Morales, Barrera deserves a medal for his encyclopedic schooling of the irritating popinjay Naseem Hamed in 2001.
From the sportsillustrated.cnn.com
Salmond is a swollen headed popinjay as well, but he has the best interests of the people of Scotland in mind and for me that is what makes me vote for his party.
From the guardian.co.uk
Peter Falk is too simian and heavy for the popinjay part of her wayward husband, and as a Jewish urban type, Jack Lemmon is frantic without being at all funny.
From the time.com
- A vain and talkative person (chatters like a parrot)
- An archaic term for a parrot
- Also called "Pole Archery"
- Jay "Popinjay" Ackroyd is a character from the Wild Cards series of books. As an Ace (a Wild Card victim with powers, but relatively few mutations), Jay can teleport people and things anywhere he can clearly visualize (often this means places like the local baseball stadium or police holding ...
- Popinjays were a British indie pop band, active between 1988 and 1994, the majority of whose records were released on the One Little Indian Records label in the UK, and Epic/One Little Indian in the US.
- A strutting supercilious person; a coxcomb, dandy, fop; A parrot or green woodpecker; A wooden parrot, or similar object, stuck on a pole as a target to be shot at; A heraldic (or other) representation of a parrot
- A small green parrot with red beak and legs
- A figure of a bird suspended from a pole and used as a target by archers and crossbowmen.
- A form of shooting where one shoots at artificial birds arranged on a tall mast using blunts.
