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Definition of popinjay

popinjay
Yaffle Yaf"fle, n. [Probably imitative of its call or cry.] (Zo["o]l.) The European green woodpecker (Picus, or Genius, viridis). It is noted for its loud laughlike note. Called also eccle, hewhole, highhoe, laughing bird, popinjay, rain bird, yaffil, yaffler, yaffingale, yappingale, yackel, and woodhack.

Meaning of popinjay from wikipedia

- Look up popinjay in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Popinjay may refer to: Old-fashioned term for a parrot (cf. Old French papegeai and papegai, German...
- 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...
- flying and so they ****ign themselves to every single mission. Corporal Popinjay – The clerk present at Clevinger's trial; he is imprisoned for being too...
- something inbred, it's a part of me. I will always walk around like a Persian popinjay", an oblique reference to his Indian Parsi background. Feeling a connection...
- England. Some of the many similar alternative terms are: coxcomb, fribble, popinjay (meaning 'parrot'), dandy, fashion-monger, and ninny. Macaroni was another...
- The Popinjays are a British indie pop band, mainly active between 1988 and 1994, and again from 2015 to the present. Most of their records were released...
- Flight archery Gungdo Indoor archery Kyūdō Match crossbow Mounted archery Popinjay Run archery Target archery Sports using guns (firearms, air guns, etc.)...
- and the Bean Home News, 1943 Freddy and Mr. Camphor, 1944 Freddy and the Popinjay, 1945 Freddy the Pied Piper, 1946 Freddy the Magician, 1947 Freddy Goes...
- A Hunter Field Target (HFT) metallic target in the form of a Rat. The Popinjay (from the French papegai, or "parrot") is an ancient form of target for...
- catastrophic war between Houses. Accompanied by the Aces Captain Trips and Popinjay, Tachyon's bid to reclaim the throne to which she is heir (a position traditionally...