See Also: Popinjay(medicine)
popinjay(dictionary)
Popinjay - Archery(gambling)
King of the Popinjay - Archery(gambling)

popinjay (iou)



popinjay noun & adjective. ME.

A. noun.
A parrot. arch. ME.
John Owen An empty insignificant word like the speech of parrots and popinjays.
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.
A representation of a parrot, esp. as a heraldic charge or an inn sign, or (formerly) in tapestry. LME.
Archery. A shooting target consisting of bunches of plumage set at different heights on a perched pole. M16.
The prevailing colour of the green parrot; a shade of green. L16-E18.
The green woodpecker, Picus viridis. local. M19.
B. attrib. or as adjective. Of the colour or shade of a green parrot. M16-M19.