popinjay / ˈpɒp ɪnˌdʒeɪ /

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popinjay 的定义

n. 名词 noun
  1. a person given to vain, pretentious displays and empty chatter; coxcomb; fop.
  2. British Dialect. a woodpecker, especially the green woodpecker.
  3. Archaic. the figure of a parrot usually fixed on a pole and used as a target in archery and gun shooting.
  4. Archaic. a parrot.

popinjay 近义词

popinjay

等同于 Beau Brummel

popinjay

等同于 coxcomb

popinjay 的近义词 8
popinjay

等同于 fop

更多popinjay例句

  1. That spruce, affected little popinjay over there, who looks as if he had been drinking verjuice.
  2. Then will they miss seeing a man, and not a popinjay, I retorted.
  3. 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.
  4. When the class war came, he would naturally he found shooting down the workmen; but for any other war, an ignorant popinjay!
  5. The very quintessence of popinjay vulgarity is reached when nicely is made to do service for well, in this wise: "How do you do?"