Popinjay

Found in thesaurus: egoist, swellhead, egotist, parrot

Babylon English

popinjay

n. showoff, arrogant person; braggart, boastful person; fop, man who is overly concerned with his appearance; parrot (type of bird)

English Wikipedia - The Free Encyclopedia

Popinjay

Popinjay may refer to:

Old-fashioned term for a parrot (cf. German Papagei)
A dandy or foppish person
Popinjay (sport), a shooting sport that can be performed with either rifles or archery equipment
Popinjay, Stibochiona nicea, a species of butterfly
Popinjay (Wild Cards), a Wild Cards character
Popinjays, a British indie pop band
Corporal Popinjay, a Catch-22 character

WordNet 2.0

popinjay

Noun
1. a vain and talkative person (chatters like a parrot)
(hypernym) egotist, egoist, swellhead
2. archaic
(hypernym) parrot

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Popinjay

(n.)
The green woodpecker.

(n.)
A trifling, chattering, fop or coxcomb.

(n.)
A target in the form of a parrot.

(n.)
A parrot.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. About

Free English-Vietnamese Dictionary

popinjay

popinjay /'pɔpindʤei/

danh từ
- kẻ hợm mình, kẻ kiêu căng, kẻ dương dương tự đắc
- (từ cổ,nghĩa cổ) con vẹt
- (sử học) hình con vẹt ở đầu sào (làm đích tập bắn)
- (tiếng địa phương) chim gõ kiến