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popinjay

synonyms for popinjay

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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?"

THE VERBALISTTHOMAS EMBLY OSMUN, (AKA ALFRED AYRES)

On the high sea, I am in supreme control, and know how to run the Mauretania without advice from a bloody Spanish popinjay!

He perceived that this fussy lawyer was not wholly a popinjay, for it required courage to insult a pirate to his face.

What of Wagner, with his delight in imbecile fables, his popinjay vanity, his soul of a Schnorrer?

As for this young Popinjay, he will have more need to protect himself than these Kingdoms.

And in Earl Richard and other ballads, it is the 'popinjay' that proclaims guilt or fear from turret or tree.

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OCTOBER 26, 1985