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popinjay n.
多嘴而爱装腔作势的人,花花公子,绿色的啄木鸟,鹦鹉 多嘴而爱装腔作势的人,花花公子,绿色的啄木鸟,鹦鹉 popinjay n 1: a vain and talkative person (chatters like a parrot) 2: an archaic term for a parrot Popinjay \Pop"in*jay\, n. [OE. popingay, papejay, OF. papegai,
papegaut; cf. Pr. papagai, Sp. & Pg. papagayo, It. pappagallo, LGr. ?, NGr. ?; in which the first syllables are perhaps imitative of the bird's chatter, and the last either fr. L. gallus cock, or the same word as E. jay, F. geai. Cf. {Papagay}.] [1913 Webster] 1. (Zool.) (a) The green woodpecker. (b) A parrot. [1913 Webster] The pye and popyngay speak they know not what. --Tyndale. [1913 Webster] 2. A target in the form of a parrot. [Scot.] [1913 Webster] 3. A trifling, chattering, fop or coxcomb. "To be so pestered with a popinjay." --Shak. [1913 Webster] Yaffle \Yaf"fle\ (y[a^]f"f'l), n. [Probably imitative of its call or cry.] (Zool.) The European green woodpecker ({Picus viridis} syn. {Genius viridis}). It is noted for its loud laughlike note. Called also {eccle}, {hewhole}, {highhoe}, {laughing bird}, {popinjay}, {rain bird}, {yaffil}, {yaffler}, {yaffingale}, {yappingale}, {yackel}, and {woodhack}. [1913 Webster]
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