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Origin of popinjay1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of popinjay1
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Example Sentences
That spruce, affected little popinjay over there, who looks as if he had been drinking verjuice.
Then will they miss seeing a man, and not a popinjay, I retorted.
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.
When the class war came, he would naturally he found shooting down the workmen; but for any other war, an ignorant popinjay!
The very quintessence of popinjay vulgarity is reached when nicely is made to do service for well, in this wise: "How do you do?"
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