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# popinjay

«popinjay» in Mova's school dictionary: **a parrot** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (popinjays)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (old use) A popinjay is a parrot. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/popinjay/#m1)

2) A popinjay is a vain, showy person who dresses up and likes to be admired. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/popinjay/#m2)

3) (old use) A popinjay is a wooden bird set up as a target at old shooting contests. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/popinjay/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

in fairy tales, a proud and silly show-off; or the wooden bird that archers shoot at

### examples

- The vain popinjay strutted about in his silk coat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/popinjay/#x1)
- «Ah, you are pleased to jest, popinjay!» said the Queen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/popinjay/#x2)
- The archers aimed at the wooden popinjay on the pole. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/popinjay/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «popinjay» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/popinjay/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.