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Meanings of popinjay in English
Usage of popinjay in English
1
Major Brennan, take this young popinjay to the Mansion House under guard.
2
Frank Ayres was suddenly transformed from a popinjay into an admirable fellow.
3
No use bothering our heads now about the plumes of an arrogant popinjay.
4
The poor popinjay was too brave a bird to be Thibaut d'Aussigny's decoy-duck.
5
Despite the situation, Ian was beginning to have some sympathy for the wee popinjay.
6
I say he is a popinjay, with all his learning.
7
Only the pelican and the popinjay among fowls use the foot instead of an hand.
8
Some popinjay had conceived a whim for travelling by litter instead of in his carriage.
9
And yet, even with such a popinjay as Lord Rufford, he himself felt the lordship.
10
Was she meant for that popinjay youth with the petulant eye and the sullen jaw?
11
To which the popinjay responded, "We are all Mother Carey's chickens."
12
Where were you going when this popinjay stopped you?
13
I am a drunkard, a libertine, and a popinjay!
14
Oh, ay, Conrade of Montserrat-whoknows not the popinjay?
15
Then he said, 'Remember that popinjay Thomas Culpeper, that was at the cockfighting yesterday with Dereham?'
16
Not the popinjay, but the Pope in white.
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Popinjay across language varieties
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