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popinjay

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pop·in·jay  (ppn-j)
n.
A vain, talkative person.
[Middle English, parrot, from Old French papegai, from Spanish papagayo or Old Provençal papagai, both from Arabic bab', baba', from Persian babbagh.]
popinjay
Noun
a conceited, foppish, or overly talkative person [Arabic babaghā parrot]
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Noun1.popinjay - a vain and talkative person (chatters like a parrot)
egoist, egotist, swellhead - a conceited and self-centered person
2.popinjay - an archaic term for a parrot
parrot - usually brightly colored zygodactyl tropical birds with short hooked beaks and the ability to mimic sounds
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down fell somebody: it was a wooden bird, the popinjay used at the shooting-matches at Prastoe.
Andersen's Fairy Tales by Andersen, Hans Christian View in context
But Aunt Em was "all of a flutter," as she said, and it took Dorothy and Jellia Jamb, the housekeeper, and two maids a long time to dress her and do up her hair and get her "rigged like a popinjay," as she quaintly expressed it.
The Emerald City of Oz by Baum, L. Frank View in context
But what mainly occasioned a righteous indignation was, that the scoundrelly popinjay, while he cut a fandango here, and a whirligig there, did not seem to have the remotest idea in the world of such a thing as keeping time in his steps.
The Devil in the Belfry by Poe, Edgar Allan View in context
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