popinjay

How to use popinjay in a sentence

• That spruce, affected little popinjay over there, who looks as if he had been drinking verjuice.

  Catherine de' Medici | Honore de Balzac

• Then will they miss seeing a man, and not a popinjay, I retorted.

  By order of the company | Mary Johnston

• You might argue with them all day, and you could not make them feel so small as I made that popinjay feel in one hour.

  Eighty Years And More; Reminiscences 1815-1897 | Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• When the class war came, he would naturally he found shooting down the workmen; but for any other war, an ignorant popinjay!

  The War on All Fronts: England's Effort | Mrs. Humphry Ward

• The very quintessence of popinjay vulgarity is reached when nicely is made to do service for well, in this wise: "How do you do?"

  The Verbalist | Thomas Embly Osmun, (AKA Alfred Ayres)