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popinjay

/pop-in-jey/US // ˈpɒp ɪnˌdʒeɪ //UK // (ˈpɒpɪnˌdʒeɪ) //

罂粟花,罂粟园,罂粟,罂粟种子

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Definitions

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

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Examples

  • 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?"