POPINJAY

n.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

The green woodpecker.

2.
n.

A parrot. The pye and popyngay speak they know not what. Tyndale.

3.
n.

A target in the form of a parrot. [Scot.]

4.
n.

A trifling, chattering, fop or coxcomb. "To be so pestered with a popinjay." Shak.


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