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Noun 1. popinjay - a vain and talkative person (chatters like a parrot) ... parrot - usually brightly colored zygodactyl tropical birds with short hooked beaks and the ability to mimic sounds...
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Popinjay (sport) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Popinjay or Popingo (signifying a painted bird) is a shooting sport that can be performed with either rifles or archery equipment. The rifle form is a popular diversion in Denmark; a Scottish varia...
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popinjay n 1: a vain and talkative person (chatters like a parrot) 2: archaic ... Popinjay \Pop"in*jay\, n. [OE. popingay, papejay, OF. papegai, papegaut; cf. Pr. papagai, Sp. & Pg. papagayo, It. pappagallo, LGr. ?, NGr. ?; in which the first syllables are perhaps imitative of the bird's chatter, and the last either fr.
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( Field Guide to the Birds of Britain and Europe, pp.165, 194) (Laurencia the Fletcher, September, 1992, pg. 20) ... BIRD -- Parrot and Popinjay ...
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Ron assembles the 'popinjay' frame. Popinjays are constructed of a series of frames with wooden birds pegged onto them. ... No hits yet. The idea is to shoot the birds off their pegs. The cock bird is worth the most points.
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Popinjay and parrots are birds of a feather. Popinjay from the middle .... birds singapore popinjay sentosabutterflypark nikond300 nikkor60mmf28afsmicro ...
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popinjay • \PAH-pin-jay\ • noun a strutting supercilious person Example sentence: Shopping was going fine until, in one of the boutiques, a popinjay of a sales clerk clearly snubbed us. Did you know? Popinjays and parrots are birds of a feather.
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Merriam-Webster provides a free online dictionary, thesaurus, audio pronunciations, Word of the Day, word games, and other English language resources. ... Popinjays and parrots are birds of a feather. "Popinjay," from the Middle French word "papegai," is the original name for a parrot in English.
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Pole archery consisted of shooting at artificial birds placed on cross beams that were suspended from a large pole. Renson and Bijkerk discussed the pole archery events in their article “Archery at the Games of the VIIth Olympiad, Antwerp 1920,” in _Journal of Olympic History_.
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