popinjay
[noun]
Synonyms: fop, Beau Brummel, blood, buck, coxcomb, dandy, dude, exquisite, lounge lizard, macaroni

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popinjay noun & adjective. ['pɒpɪndʒeɪ] ME.
[Anglo-Norman papeiaye, Old French papegay, papingay (mod. papegai) from Spanish papagayo from Arab. babbaġā, babġā. The final syll. is assim. to JAY.]
A. noun.
1. A parrot. arch. ME.
■ John Owen An empty insignificant word like the speech of parrots and popinjays.

2. fig.
a. A beautiful or praiseworthy person (with allus. to the beauty and rarity of the bird). rare. Only in ME.
b. A type of vanity or empty conceit, a vain or conceited person (with allus. to the bird's gaudy plumage or its empty repetition of words and phrases). E16.
■ J. Heller A vain and convivial popinjay..who feels he has already come into his estate.

3. A representation of a parrot, esp. as a heraldic charge or an inn sign, or (formerly) in tapestry. LME.

4. Archery. A shooting target consisting of bunches of plumage set at different heights on a perched pole. M16.

5. The prevailing colour of the green parrot; a shade of green. L16-E18.

6. The green woodpecker, Picus viridis. local. M19.
B. attrib. or as adjective. Of the colour or shade of a green parrot. M16-M19.

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