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Popinjay
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828
Part of speech: noun (n.)
1. The green woodpecker.
2. A parrot. The pye and popyngay speak they know not what. Tyndale.
3. A target in the form of a parrot. [Scot.]
4. A trifling, chattering, fop or coxcomb. "To be so pestered with a popinjay." Shak.