popinjayn.

Brit.

/ˈpɒpɪndʒeɪ/, U.S.

/ˈpɑpənˌdʒeɪ/

Forms:

α. Middle English popeniaye, Middle English popingeay, Middle English popyngeay, Middle English popyniaye, Middle English popynjay, Middle English popynyay, Middle English–1500s popengay, Middle English–1500s popeniay, Middle English–1500s popyniay, Middle English–1500s popynjaye, Middle English–1600s popingay, Middle English–1600s popiniay, Middle English–1600s popyngay, Middle English– popinjay, 1500s popengaie, 1500s popenjaye, 1500s popingei, 1500s popingiaye, 1500s popingjoye, 1500s popiniae, 1500s popinioye, 1500s poppagaye, 1500s poppingaie, 1500s poppyngee, 1500s popyngaye, 1500s–1600s popingaie, 1500s–1600s popingaye, 1500s–1600s popingiay, 1500s–1600s popiniaye, 1500s–1600s popinjaye, 1500s–1600s poppiniaie, 1500s–1700s popingey, 1600s hopingay (transmission error), 1600s popengie, 1600s popingeare, 1600s popingjay, 1600s popinia, 1600s popinjaie, 1600s poppingay, 1600s poppiniay, 1600s–1800s poppinjay; N.E.D. (1907) also records a form of the ending Middle English -ȝay. 1322 in Hist. MSS Comm.: Rep. MSS Var. Coll. (1914) VII. 334 in Parl. Papers (Cd. 6722) XXVI. 1 j. vetus sella cum iij. popingayis.1393 in L. T. Smith Exped. Prussia & Holy Land Earl Derby (1894) 286 Pro j cage pro le popingay.?a1425 (c1400) Mandeville's Trav. (Titus C.xvi) (1919) 180 Of Popengayes as gret plentee as men fynden here of gees.1481 W. Caxton tr. Myrrour of Worlde ii. viii. 84 Ther ben popengayes, whiche ben grene & shynyng lyke pecoks.a1500 in T. Wright Vocabularies (1857) 164 I hyrde the fowles syng..The jaye, the popynjaye, and the nyghtyngale.a1500 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 625 Psitagus, popynyay.1541 T. Elyot Image of Gouernance iii. f. 4^v With the tunges of Popingayes, nightyngales, and other sweete syngyng byrdes.1544 W. Turner Avium Præcipuarum sig. H6 Psitacus, Anglicè a popiniay.1553 R. Eden tr. S. Münster Treat. Newe India sig. Diij There bee also grene popingiays.1577 J. Frampton tr. N. Monardes Three Bookes iii. f. 94^v He had eaten muche fleshe of Popingeis.1588 G. Babington Profitable Expos. Lords Prayer i. 43 The Cardinals Popiniay that could pronounce distinctlie all the Articles of the Creed.1600 J. Pory tr. J. Leo Africanus Geogr. Hist. Afr. ix. 349 Of the parrat or poppiniay. These parrats are commonly founde in the woods of Ethiopia.a1649 W. Drummond Wks. (1711) 156 The Artificial Notes of the learned Popingayes in the Guilt Cages.1657 J. Owen Rev. Nat. Schism in Wks. (1852) XIII. 164 An empty insignificant word like the speech of parrots and popinjays.1741 Geogr. & Hist. Descr. Principal Objects War in W.-Indies 125 The Woods are stored with Birds, as Popinjays, some as large as Ravens, and their Tails as long as the Pheasants.1794 W. Hayes Portraits Rare & Curious Birds I. 25 The Count de Buffon has discriminated..those of the new world into six families; Maccaws, Amazonians, Cricks, Popinjays, long-tailed Paroquets, and short-tailed Paroquets.1816 W. Scott Old Mortality ii, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. II. 36 The figure of a bird, decked with party-coloured feathers, so as to resemble a popinjay, or parrot.1927 E. Lewis Trader Horn (1930) i. ii. 47 Kingfishers I could hardly count on both hands for variability. Gay as popinjays.1994 P. O'Brian Commodore (1996) v. 111 Look at 'em, like a parcel of popinjays.

β. Middle English papaga, Middle English papagey, Middle English papegay, Middle English papeiai, Middle English papeiay, Middle English papeiaye, Middle English papeioye, Middle English papejaes (plural), Middle English papejai, Middle English papejay, Middle English papejoy, Middle English papiay, Middle English–1500s papegai; Scottish pre-1700 papeiay, pre-1700 papeiaye, pre-1700 papeio, pre-1700 papgay, pre-1700 papioy, 1700s papagee; N.E.D. (1907) also records forms Middle English papeiaie, Middle English papeioy. a1350 in G. L. Brook Harley Lyrics (1968) 32 He is papeiai in pyn þat beteþ me my bale.c1395 G. Chaucer Merchant's Tale 2322 Syngeth ful murier than the papeiay [v.rr. papeiaye, papegay, popeniay].c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) 1465 Pyes and papejayes purtrayed withinne.?a1425 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) xxv. 117 Nyghtgales syngand, and papeiays spekand.1483 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 89074) (1881) 268 A Papeiay [?c1475 BL Add. 15562 A Papeioye], psitacus.c1500 (?a1437) Kingis Quair (1939) cx Unlike the crow is to the papejay.a1525 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1923) I. 158/25 The bird that is callit scitacus the pap-ioy.1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 1st Bk. Wks. xxiii. 107 Gargantua..shot at but-marks, at the papgay [Fr. papegay] from below upwards, or to a height.1767 Lyon in Mourning (1895) III. 217 [He] gives out that my favorite lady is for certain a papagee: that she goes frequently to mass and has two priests in her family.

γ. Middle English papengay, Middle English papenioye, Middle English papenyay, Middle English paperioyes (plural, transmission error), Middle English papiniay, Middle English papiniey, Middle English papyngay, Middle English papyniay, 1500s papingeay, 1500s papingeaye; Scottish pre-1700 papingais (plural), pre-1700 papingay, pre-1700 papyngay; N.E.D. (1907) also records forms Middle English papiniaye, Middle English papyngaye, Middle English papynjaye. 1380 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1836) I. 111 Lego..unum vestimentum..braudatum cum..papyngays. ▸ a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1872) IV. 307 Oon mette hym wiþ a papengay [L. psittacum] on his hond.c1390 G. Chaucer Shipman's Tale 1559 Hoom he gooth, murye as a papyniay [v.rr. popeniaye, papenioye].a1500 in F. J. Furnivall Polit., Relig., & Love Poems (1903) 131 The pellycan and the papynjaye.?1507 W. Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen (Rouen) in Poems (1998) I. 51 I thoght myself a papingay.1554 D. Lindsay Dialog Experience & Courteour 217 in Wks. (1931) I Lyke one stirlyng or ane papingay [rhyme day, say] Quhilk leirnit ar to speik.1593 J. Eliot Ortho-epia Gallica 44/2 Truce of thirst, league of hunger, I am no more angrie I thanke God and you. I am gay as a Papingeay, perke as a sparhawke, merrie as a butterflie.

δ. Middle English popeiay, Middle English popejay, Middle English popians (plural, transmission error), Middle English popyiay, Middle English–1500s popegay, 1500s popagay. c1390 Pistel of Swete Susan (Vernon) 75 Þer weore Pope-iayes prest, Nihtyngales vppon nest.c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. xv. 173 Þe pokok and þe popeiay with here proude federes.?a1425 (c1400) Mandeville's Trav. (Titus C.xvi) (1919) 182 Manye Popegayes þat þei clepen Psitakes in hire langage.a1475 in J. O. Halliwell Early Eng. Misc. (1855) 5 The popejay, the joly laveroke Schalle singe ȝow day and nyȝt.a1500 (?a1390) J. Mirk Festial (Gough) (1905) 256 Saynt Mathew..sayde how þat..ther was..popians [read popiaiis] and bryddes euermore syngyng.a1529 J. Skelton Speke Parrot in Certayne Bks. (?1545) sig. A.v^v Make moche of parrot, the popegay ryall For that pereles prynce, that parrot dyd create.

ε. Scottish pre-1700 paippingoe, pre-1700 papingaw, pre-1700 papyngo, pre-1700 pepingo, pre-1700 1800s papingoe, pre-1700 1800s– papingo, pre-1700 1900s– pappingo, 1700s popingoe, 1800s peppingo. 1559 D. Lindsay Test. Papyngo 63 in Wks. (1931) I The complaynt of ane woundit Papingo.1568 (a1500) Freiris Berwik 148 in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS (1930) IV. 265 Als prowd as ony papingo.1570 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xv. 37 Ȝe plesand Paun and Papingaw Cast of ȝour blyithlyke cullour.a1583 A. Arbuthnot Praises of Women in J. Pinkerton Anc. Sc. Poems I. 142 The papingo in hew Excedis birdis all.?1590–1 J. Burel Passage of Pilgremer ii, in Poems sig. O^v The Piet and the Papingo, With the Goldspink I saw thame go.1794 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. XI. 173 One is a perpendicular mark, called a popingoe..cut out in wood, fixed in the end of a pole, and placed 120 feet high, on the steeple of the monastery.a1854 P. Buchan in R. Chambers Pop. Rhymes Scotl. (1870) 42 The King sent his lady on the first Yule day, a papingo—aye.1987 W. Mongtgomerie in J. Hendry Chapman 46 15 In Mr Dawson's classroom We stude in raws like green papingoes Singin his Esperanto hymn.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French papejei, papegai, papegau.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman papejei, papegei, papejai, papejoi, papejoie, papinjai and Old French (northern) papejai, Old French, Middle French papegai, papegay (end of the 12th cent.; French (now chiefly regional) papegai ), probably < Old Occitan papagay (c1200; Occitan papagai ); see further below. In ε. forms < Middle French papegau (13th cent. in Old French, also papegault , papegaut ; French (now regional) papegaut ); see further below. With Old Occitan papagay compare Catalan papagai (late 13th cent. as papagay ), Spanish papagayo (a1250), Portuguese papagaio (15th cent.; c1300 as papagai ); the word was also borrowed into other Germanic languages, compare Middle Dutch papegay , papegoy , papengay (Dutch papegaai ), Middle Low German papagai , papegōie , papegoge , papengōie , poppegoye , early modern German papegoge (second half of the 14th cent. in an isolated attestation), German Papagei (early 16th cent.), Old Swedish papegoya (Swedish papegoja ). With Old French, Middle French papegau compare Old Occitan (rare) papagal (13th cent.), Catalan papagall (1400; compare also papagayl (1268)), Spanish (now rare) papagallo (1492–4; perhaps compare also the surname Papagallos (1074 in a Latin document)), Italian pappagallo (a1292), post-classical Latin papegallus , papagallus , pappagallus (1204 in a British source; 1295, c1335 in Du Cange), modern Greek παπαγάλλος ; Old French papegau may also be the origin of Middle High German papegān (compare post-classical Latin papagen (early 13th cent. in a northern French source)). All forms are ultimately (probably via medieval Greek παπαγάς ) < Arabic babġā' , babbaġā' , of imitative origin; compare Persian bapġā (rare). The word was probably borrowed from Arabic at the time of the Crusades; its various forms in different languages show remodelling of the ending as a result of folk etymology: the group of forms represented by Old Occitan papagai , Old French papegai and Anglo-Norman papejai has been influenced by the name of the European chattering bird, the jay (see jay n. and Romance forms cited at that entry), and probably also by respective forms of the adjective gay adj. (see Romance forms cited at that entry); whereas the group of forms represented by Old Occitan papagal , Old French papegau , Catalan papagall , Italian pappagallo show the influence of classical Latin gallus cock (see galline adj.). Compare also post-classical Latin papagabio, papagabius (c1180, c1200 in British sources) with ending remodelled after gabio buffoon, jester.Middle English forms with pop- for pap- (compare α and δ forms) may perhaps be folk etymological alterations after pope n.¹, but are more likely to be simple phonetic variants (compare Middle French (northern) paupegay (15th cent.), Middle Low German poppegoye ). Forms with -n- (compare α, γ, and ε forms) show the common Middle English development of an intrusive n before g (representing both /dʒ/ and /ɡ/: see E. J. Dobson Eng. Pronunc. 1500–1700 (ed. 2, 1968) II. §438, and compare discussion at nightingale n.¹); a parallel development is found in Middle Dutch and Middle Low German, and isolated occurrences of Anglo-Norman papungay and Old French papingai are probably after Middle English or continental Germanic forms. With sense 6 compare post-classical Latin herba papagalli (1618 in Dodoens). Attested earlier as a surname, although it is uncertain whether these reflect the Anglo-Norman or the Middle English word: Ralph Papejaye (1270), Rog. Papunjay (c1311).

†a. An ornamental representation of a parrot, esp. on a tapestry. Obsolete.

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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > ornamental textiles > [noun] > tapestry > representation in

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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > pattern or design > [noun] > others

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1322 in Hist. MSS Comm.: Rep. MSS Var. Coll. (1914) VII. 334 in Parl. Papers (Cd. 6722) XXVI. 1 j. vetus sella cum iij. popingayis.

c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) 611 Bryddez on semez, As papiayez paynted pernyng bitwene.

c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) 5129 With pellicans & pape-ioyes polischt & grauen.

1509 in V. Chinnery Oak Furnit. (1979) 392 A counterpoynt of popynjaye and blonkett.

c1560 (a1500) Squyr Lowe Degre (Copland) 798 A cloth of golde abought your heade, With popiniayes pyght with pery read.

1578 T. Nicholas tr. F. Lopez de Gómara Pleasant Hist. Conquest W. India 198 They will make a Parret or Popin Jay of mettall, that his tongue shall shake, and his heade move, and his wings flutter.

b. Heraldry. A representation of a parrot as a charge or bearing.Also as the sign of an inn.

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society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > heraldic representations of creatures > [noun] > heraldic birds

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pelican in her piety1885

the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > drinking place > [noun] > tavern or public house > tavern sign

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c1460 Bk. Arms in Ancestor (1903) Jan. 231 (MED) Popyngayes of grene beke and fet gowlys.

c1500 (?a1475) Assembly of Gods (1896) 817 (MED) A popyniay was hys crest.

1530 T. Wall Bk. Crests in Ancestor (1904) 11 189 Trevylion of Devon beryth to his crest two armes asur the handed silver holdyng a pellet on the which standyth a popingay.

1687 London Gaz. No. 2306/4 And the Thursday after, at the Popinjay in Norwich.

1729 A. Boyer Grand Théatre de l'Honneur 267 Truelove bears..Or, a Popinjay, or Parrot in his delight, Azure.

1768 Hist. City & County Norwich 440 Roger [Popinjay] converted the corner house into an inn, and in allusion to his name put up the sign of the Popinjay.

1790 Peerage Eng., Scotl., & Ireland I. 433 Arms. Argent, on a bend, sable, three popin jays, or, collard, gules.

1881 J. B. Burke Peerage 7/1 (Sir R. J. Abercromby, Bart.) Three papingoes, vert, beaked and membered, gu.

1927 C. K. Bolton Amer. Armory 43 Curzon, Crest: a popinjay rising or, collared gu.

1946 Times 28 Dec. 7/2 Argent a chevron gules between three popinjays vert collared or within a bordure azure bezanty. They are beautifully painted, the popinjays..being drawn as one would expect from an artist who was using a parrot as a model.

2. figurative.

†a. With allusion to the beauty and rarity of the bird: a beautiful or praiseworthy person. Obsolete. rare.Cf. later popinjayess n. at Derivatives.

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the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > [noun] > beautiful thing or person > beautiful person

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a1350 in G. L. Brook Harley Lyrics (1968) 32 He is papeiai in pyn that beteþ me my bale.

c1450 J. Lydgate Ballade Our Lady (Sloane) 81 in Minor Poems (1911) i. 258 O popinjay, plumed in clennesse.

a1525 (c1448) R. Holland Bk. Howlat l. 125 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 98 He [sc. the Pope] callit on his cubicular..That was ye proper pape Iaye provde in his apparale.

b. With allusion to the bird's gaudy plumage or its mechanical repetition of words and phrases: a shallow, vain, or conceited person. Cf. parrot n.¹ 2.In quot. 1767 probably with punning reference to Pape n.

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the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > lack of refinement > [noun] > person

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peasant1581

clown1583

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no-neck1961

1528 W. Tyndale Obed. Christen Man f. lxxxix^v The prest ought to..Christen them in the english tonge, and not to playe the popengay with Credo saye ye, volo saye ye and baptismum saye ye, for there ought to be no mummynge in soch a mater.

1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 i. iii. 49 I then, all smarting with my wounds being cold, To be so pestred with a Popingay.

a1618 W. Raleigh Disc. Invention Shipping 41 in Judicious & Select Ess. (1650) Popinjayes that value themselves by their out sides, and by their Players coats.

1678 T. Otway Friendship in Fashion v. 57 Shall I draw my Cerberus and cut you off you Gaudy Popinjaies?

1767 R. Forbes Let. 23 Feb. in Lyon in Mourning (1896) III. 217 There is one in Edina..who gives out that my favorite lady is for certain a papagee; that she goes frequently to mass, and that she has two priests in her family.

1787 H. Lewis Excursion to Margate xviii. 77 How my resentment rose to see civic poppinjays in paltry sports profane the spot where..native fierceness softened before the shrine of beauty.

1799 R. Buchanan Wallace ii. vi. 33 If I can find the beardless popinjay, I shall not wait Till he shall strike.

1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe III. v. 126 The fond fool was decked in a painted coat, and jangling as pert and as proud as any popinjay.

1881 W. Besant & J. Rice Chaplain of Fleet II. xi. 216 I think the players are better company than your priggish popinjays.

1934 Times 4 July 11/4 It was all very well to laugh at the popinjays in black shirts, but Fascism was raising its head.

1954 W. de la Mare Sel. Poems (1973) 144 Where's your Psychology, You popinjay?

1995 Times 28 Nov. ii. 33/1 Nothing could depart more outrageously from the norm than Van Dyck's portrait of the shameless popinjay Sir Robert Shirley.

3. A parrot. Now archaic.By 18th cent. ornithological writers sometimes applied spec. to certain South American parrots, following Buffon's usage of French papegai.

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the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Psittaciformes (parrots, etc.) > [noun] > parrot

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Poll1600

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a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) IV. 307 Oon mette hym wiþ a papengay [L. psittacum] on his hond.

c1395 G. Chaucer Merchant's Tale 2322 Syngeth ful murier than the papeiay [v.rr. papeiaye, papegay, popeniay].

a1529 J. Skelton Speke Parrot in Certayne Bks. (?1545) sig. A.v^v Make moche of parrot, the popegay ryall For that pereles prynce, that parrot dyd create.

1559 D. Lindsay Test. Papyngo in Wks. (1931) I. 63 The complaynt of ane woundit Papingo.

a1649 W. Drummond Wks. (1711) 156 The Artificial Notes of the learned Popingayes in the Guilt Cages.

1657 J. Owen Rev. Nat. Schism in Wks. (1852) XIII. 164 An empty insignificant word like the speech of parrots and popinjays.

1741 Geogr. & Hist. Descr. Principal Objects War in W.-Indies 125 The Woods are stored with Birds, as Popinjays, some as large as Ravens, and their Tails as long as the Pheasants.

1794 W. Hayes Portraits Rare & Curious Birds I. 25 The Count de Buffon has discriminated..those of the new world into six families; Maccaws, Amazonians, Cricks, Popinjays, long-tailed Paroquets, and short-tailed Paroquets.

1816 W. Scott Old Mortality ii, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. II. 36 The figure of a bird, decked with party-coloured feathers, so as to resemble a popinjay, or parrot.

a1854 P. Buchan in R. Chambers Pop. Rhymes Scotl. (1870) 42 The King sent his lady on the first Yule day, a papingo—aye.

1927 E. Lewis Trader Horn (1930) i. ii. 47 Kingfishers I could hardly count on both hands for variability. Gay as popinjays.

1994 P. O'Brian Commodore (1996) v. 111 Look at 'em, like a parcel of popinjays.

4. The colour of the parrot; (now usually) a shade of blue or green. Frequently attributive, as popinjay blue, popinjay colour, popinjay green, popinjay yellow, etc.

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the world > matter > colour > named colours > green or greenness > [noun] > shade or tint of green > yellowish green

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Georgian green1918

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c1484 Inventory Thomas Gylbert (P.R.O.: PROB. 2/12) m.4 Item j jaket of popynjay color—viij d.

1547 R. Record Judic. Uryne 16 b There are also oyle coloures (that is popingey grene) of iii sortes.

1577 N. Breton Floorish vpon Fancie sig. Ciiij^v The colours of her cloth, are..Red, Blew, Greene, Carnation, Yealow, & Popyngay.

1587 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. (1877) ii. vii. i. 172 I might here name..hewes deuised for the nonce..as..popingaie blue.

1622 H. Peacham Compl. Gentleman xii. 114 If more inclining to a Popingiay, adde more Pinke to your white Lead.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xix. 157/2 All mixt colours..as carnation, Oreng-tawny, Sky colour, Popengie, Russett, are bastard and dishonorable colours.

1719 T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth II. 19 Beck had a Coat of Popin-jay.

1747 G. Bickham Gen. Rules Painting in Oils & Water-colours 16 For a Popinjay, temper Pink, and a little Indico.

1865 Notes & Queries 3rd Ser. 8 372/2 Popinjay-green, philomel-yellow, &c., no longer appear in the Army Lists.

1936 J. B. Black Reign of Elizabeth 228 All this fantastic dress..was a glow of colour of the most bizarre description—popinjay blue, pease-porridge tawny, goose-turd green, lustygallant, Judas colour, &c.

1953 C. de Banke Shakespearean Stage Production 158 (table) Popinjay, blue-green, peacock blue..used by courtesans, especially for sleeves.

2000 Daily Mail (Nexis) 4 Nov. 55 It is a beautiful jacket, as popinjay green as the parakeets flying around the fort.

5. Archery. A target made of bunches of plumage, etc., fixed to a pole at different heights; the form of archery in which this is the target.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > competitive shooting > archery > [noun] > archery target

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1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. lx I sawe on a Sondaye this Lent .vi. C. straungiers shotyng at ye Popyngaye with Crosbowes.

1630 tr. G. Botero Relations Famous Kingdomes World (rev. ed.) 185 There is in each City a shooting with the Peece at a Popingay of wood, set upon some high Steeple.

1688 in Trans. Glasgow Archaeol. Soc. (1896) New Ser. 2 324 At Kilwinning..in order to the restoring of the ancient game of the papingo.

1794 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. XI. 173 One is a perpendicular mark, called a popingoe..cut out in wood, fixed in the end of a pole, and placed 120 feet high, on the steeple of the monastery.

1816 W. Scott Old Mortality ii, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. II. 36 The chief [sport] was to shoot at the popinjay.

1825 C. M. Westmacott Eng. Spy II. 8 We'll shoot at pride and poppinjays.

1894 Times 7 Dec. 13/2 Shooting from horseback at full gallop at a popinjay on the top of a pole was performed for my entertainment.

1908 Times 17 July 10/4 In France there are two distinct descriptions of shooting, the ‘tir à la perche’ or popinjay, which is practised in the north, and the ‘tir au jardin’, which is the favourite in the south.

1939 P. Gordon New Archery I. ii. 15 Another popular Continental form of archery is..shooting at the perch—of popinjays or ‘birds’, as they are now called.

1989 Times 4 Mar. 54/3 There are various archery disciplines: target, field, archery,..popinjay (which attempts to simulate loosing at a head peering over a battlement).

†6. A kind of plant with green or variegated leaves, apparently a pot-herb (not identified). Obsolete.The name might perhaps refer either to Amaranthus tricolor or to Swiss chard, Beta vulgaris variant. Cf. symphonia n.²

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smearwortc725

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heartwood1525

wake-wort1530

Our Lady's gloves1538

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1629 J. Parkinson Paradisi in Sole ii. xxxvii. 504 The great ribs of the Popingay, and deepe greene Colewortes, beeing boyled..are serued to the table with oyle and vinegar in the Lent time.

1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words Popingey,..also an Herb, so called from being of the colour of that bird, being a kinde of greenish colour, this Herb is called in Latin Symphonia.

7. British regional. The green woodpecker, Picus viridis.

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1612 H. Peacham Gentlemans Exercise 128 Terpsichore would bee expressed..vppon her head a coronet of..those greene feathers of the poppiniaie, in token of that victory, which the Muses got of..the daughters of Pierius,..who after were turned into poppiniaies or wood-peckers.]

1802 G. Montagu Ornithol. Dict. at Woodpecker—Green Provincial... Poppinjay.

1894 A. Newton Dict. Birds Popinjay..has in this country been transferred to the Green Woodpecker.

1901 T. Hardy Poems Past & Present 73 My popinjays fail from their tappings.

Derivatives

ˈpopinjayess n. a beautiful woman (cf. sense 2a).Apparently an isolated use.

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1890 ‘W. A. Wallace’ Only a Sister 192 You sweet future popinjayess.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	popinjay
释义	popinjayn. Brit. /ˈpɒpɪndʒeɪ/, U.S. /ˈpɑpənˌdʒeɪ/ Forms: α. Middle English popeniaye, Middle English popingeay, Middle English popyngeay, Middle English popyniaye, Middle English popynjay, Middle English popynyay, Middle English–1500s popengay, Middle English–1500s popeniay, Middle English–1500s popyniay, Middle English–1500s popynjaye, Middle English–1600s popingay, Middle English–1600s popiniay, Middle English–1600s popyngay, Middle English– popinjay, 1500s popengaie, 1500s popenjaye, 1500s popingei, 1500s popingiaye, 1500s popingjoye, 1500s popiniae, 1500s popinioye, 1500s poppagaye, 1500s poppingaie, 1500s poppyngee, 1500s popyngaye, 1500s–1600s popingaie, 1500s–1600s popingaye, 1500s–1600s popingiay, 1500s–1600s popiniaye, 1500s–1600s popinjaye, 1500s–1600s poppiniaie, 1500s–1700s popingey, 1600s hopingay (transmission error), 1600s popengie, 1600s popingeare, 1600s popingjay, 1600s popinia, 1600s popinjaie, 1600s poppingay, 1600s poppiniay, 1600s–1800s poppinjay; N.E.D. (1907) also records a form of the ending Middle English -ȝay. 1322 in Hist. MSS Comm.: Rep. MSS Var. Coll. (1914) VII. 334 in Parl. Papers (Cd. 6722) XXVI. 1 j. vetus sella cum iij. popingayis.1393 in L. T. Smith Exped. Prussia & Holy Land Earl Derby (1894) 286 Pro j cage pro le popingay.?a1425 (c1400) Mandeville's Trav. (Titus C.xvi) (1919) 180 Of Popengayes as gret plentee as men fynden here of gees.1481 W. Caxton tr. Myrrour of Worlde ii. viii. 84 Ther ben popengayes, whiche ben grene & shynyng lyke pecoks.a1500 in T. Wright Vocabularies (1857) 164 I hyrde the fowles syng..The jaye, the popynjaye, and the nyghtyngale.a1500 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 625 Psitagus, popynyay.1541 T. Elyot Image of Gouernance iii. f. 4^v With the tunges of Popingayes, nightyngales, and other sweete syngyng byrdes.1544 W. Turner Avium Præcipuarum sig. H6 Psitacus, Anglicè a popiniay.1553 R. Eden tr. S. Münster Treat. Newe India sig. Diij There bee also grene popingiays.1577 J. Frampton tr. N. Monardes Three Bookes iii. f. 94^v He had eaten muche fleshe of Popingeis.1588 G. Babington Profitable Expos. Lords Prayer i. 43 The Cardinals Popiniay that could pronounce distinctlie all the Articles of the Creed.1600 J. Pory tr. J. Leo Africanus Geogr. Hist. Afr. ix. 349 Of the parrat or poppiniay. These parrats are commonly founde in the woods of Ethiopia.a1649 W. Drummond Wks. (1711) 156 The Artificial Notes of the learned Popingayes in the Guilt Cages.1657 J. Owen Rev. Nat. Schism in Wks. (1852) XIII. 164 An empty insignificant word like the speech of parrots and popinjays.1741 Geogr. & Hist. Descr. Principal Objects War in W.-Indies 125 The Woods are stored with Birds, as Popinjays, some as large as Ravens, and their Tails as long as the Pheasants.1794 W. Hayes Portraits Rare & Curious Birds I. 25 The Count de Buffon has discriminated..those of the new world into six families; Maccaws, Amazonians, Cricks, Popinjays, long-tailed Paroquets, and short-tailed Paroquets.1816 W. Scott Old Mortality ii, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. II. 36 The figure of a bird, decked with party-coloured feathers, so as to resemble a popinjay, or parrot.1927 E. Lewis Trader Horn (1930) i. ii. 47 Kingfishers I could hardly count on both hands for variability. Gay as popinjays.1994 P. O'Brian Commodore (1996) v. 111 Look at 'em, like a parcel of popinjays. β. Middle English papaga, Middle English papagey, Middle English papegay, Middle English papeiai, Middle English papeiay, Middle English papeiaye, Middle English papeioye, Middle English papejaes (plural), Middle English papejai, Middle English papejay, Middle English papejoy, Middle English papiay, Middle English–1500s papegai; Scottish pre-1700 papeiay, pre-1700 papeiaye, pre-1700 papeio, pre-1700 papgay, pre-1700 papioy, 1700s papagee; N.E.D. (1907) also records forms Middle English papeiaie, Middle English papeioy. a1350 in G. L. Brook Harley Lyrics (1968) 32 He is papeiai in pyn þat beteþ me my bale.c1395 G. Chaucer Merchant's Tale 2322 Syngeth ful murier than the papeiay [v.rr. papeiaye, papegay, popeniay].c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) 1465 Pyes and papejayes purtrayed withinne.?a1425 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) xxv. 117 Nyghtgales syngand, and papeiays spekand.1483 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 89074) (1881) 268 A Papeiay [?c1475 BL Add. 15562 A Papeioye], psitacus.c1500 (?a1437) Kingis Quair (1939) cx Unlike the crow is to the papejay.a1525 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1923) I. 158/25 The bird that is callit scitacus the pap-ioy.1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 1st Bk. Wks. xxiii. 107 Gargantua..shot at but-marks, at the papgay [Fr. papegay] from below upwards, or to a height.1767 Lyon in Mourning (1895) III. 217 [He] gives out that my favorite lady is for certain a papagee: that she goes frequently to mass and has two priests in her family. γ. Middle English papengay, Middle English papenioye, Middle English papenyay, Middle English paperioyes (plural, transmission error), Middle English papiniay, Middle English papiniey, Middle English papyngay, Middle English papyniay, 1500s papingeay, 1500s papingeaye; Scottish pre-1700 papingais (plural), pre-1700 papingay, pre-1700 papyngay; N.E.D. (1907) also records forms Middle English papiniaye, Middle English papyngaye, Middle English papynjaye. 1380 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1836) I. 111 Lego..unum vestimentum..braudatum cum..papyngays. ▸ a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1872) IV. 307 Oon mette hym wiþ a papengay [L. psittacum] on his hond.c1390 G. Chaucer Shipman's Tale 1559 Hoom he gooth, murye as a papyniay [v.rr. popeniaye, papenioye].a1500 in F. J. Furnivall Polit., Relig., & Love Poems (1903) 131 The pellycan and the papynjaye.?1507 W. Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen (Rouen) in Poems (1998) I. 51 I thoght myself a papingay.1554 D. Lindsay Dialog Experience & Courteour 217 in Wks. (1931) I Lyke one stirlyng or ane papingay [rhyme day, say] Quhilk leirnit ar to speik.1593 J. Eliot Ortho-epia Gallica 44/2 Truce of thirst, league of hunger, I am no more angrie I thanke God and you. I am gay as a Papingeay, perke as a sparhawke, merrie as a butterflie. δ. Middle English popeiay, Middle English popejay, Middle English popians (plural, transmission error), Middle English popyiay, Middle English–1500s popegay, 1500s popagay. c1390 Pistel of Swete Susan (Vernon) 75 Þer weore Pope-iayes prest, Nihtyngales vppon nest.c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. xv. 173 Þe pokok and þe popeiay with here proude federes.?a1425 (c1400) Mandeville's Trav. (Titus C.xvi) (1919) 182 Manye Popegayes þat þei clepen Psitakes in hire langage.a1475 in J. O. Halliwell Early Eng. Misc. (1855) 5 The popejay, the joly laveroke Schalle singe ȝow day and nyȝt.a1500 (?a1390) J. Mirk Festial (Gough) (1905) 256 Saynt Mathew..sayde how þat..ther was..popians [read popiaiis] and bryddes euermore syngyng.a1529 J. Skelton Speke Parrot in Certayne Bks. (?1545) sig. A.v^v Make moche of parrot, the popegay ryall For that pereles prynce, that parrot dyd create. ε. Scottish pre-1700 paippingoe, pre-1700 papingaw, pre-1700 papyngo, pre-1700 pepingo, pre-1700 1800s papingoe, pre-1700 1800s– papingo, pre-1700 1900s– pappingo, 1700s popingoe, 1800s peppingo. 1559 D. Lindsay Test. Papyngo 63 in Wks. (1931) I The complaynt of ane woundit Papingo.1568 (a1500) Freiris Berwik 148 in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS (1930) IV. 265 Als prowd as ony papingo.1570 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xv. 37 Ȝe plesand Paun and Papingaw Cast of ȝour blyithlyke cullour.a1583 A. Arbuthnot Praises of Women in J. Pinkerton Anc. Sc. Poems I. 142 The papingo in hew Excedis birdis all.?1590–1 J. Burel Passage of Pilgremer ii, in Poems sig. O^v The Piet and the Papingo, With the Goldspink I saw thame go.1794 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. XI. 173 One is a perpendicular mark, called a popingoe..cut out in wood, fixed in the end of a pole, and placed 120 feet high, on the steeple of the monastery.a1854 P. Buchan in R. Chambers Pop. Rhymes Scotl. (1870) 42 The King sent his lady on the first Yule day, a papingo—aye.1987 W. Mongtgomerie in J. Hendry Chapman 46 15 In Mr Dawson's classroom We stude in raws like green papingoes Singin his Esperanto hymn. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French papejei, papegai, papegau. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman papejei, papegei, papejai, papejoi, papejoie, papinjai and Old French (northern) papejai, Old French, Middle French papegai, papegay (end of the 12th cent.; French (now chiefly regional) papegai ), probably < Old Occitan papagay (c1200; Occitan papagai ); see further below. In ε. forms < Middle French papegau (13th cent. in Old French, also papegault , papegaut ; French (now regional) papegaut ); see further below. With Old Occitan papagay compare Catalan papagai (late 13th cent. as papagay ), Spanish papagayo (a1250), Portuguese papagaio (15th cent.; c1300 as papagai ); the word was also borrowed into other Germanic languages, compare Middle Dutch papegay , papegoy , papengay (Dutch papegaai ), Middle Low German papagai , papegōie , papegoge , papengōie , poppegoye , early modern German papegoge (second half of the 14th cent. in an isolated attestation), German Papagei (early 16th cent.), Old Swedish papegoya (Swedish papegoja ). With Old French, Middle French papegau compare Old Occitan (rare) papagal (13th cent.), Catalan papagall (1400; compare also papagayl (1268)), Spanish (now rare) papagallo (1492–4; perhaps compare also the surname Papagallos (1074 in a Latin document)), Italian pappagallo (a1292), post-classical Latin papegallus , papagallus , pappagallus (1204 in a British source; 1295, c1335 in Du Cange), modern Greek παπαγάλλος ; Old French papegau may also be the origin of Middle High German papegān (compare post-classical Latin papagen (early 13th cent. in a northern French source)). All forms are ultimately (probably via medieval Greek παπαγάς ) < Arabic babġā' , babbaġā' , of imitative origin; compare Persian bapġā (rare). The word was probably borrowed from Arabic at the time of the Crusades; its various forms in different languages show remodelling of the ending as a result of folk etymology: the group of forms represented by Old Occitan papagai , Old French papegai and Anglo-Norman papejai has been influenced by the name of the European chattering bird, the jay (see jay n. and Romance forms cited at that entry), and probably also by respective forms of the adjective gay adj. (see Romance forms cited at that entry); whereas the group of forms represented by Old Occitan papagal , Old French papegau , Catalan papagall , Italian pappagallo show the influence of classical Latin gallus cock (see galline adj.). Compare also post-classical Latin papagabio, papagabius (c1180, c1200 in British sources) with ending remodelled after gabio buffoon, jester.Middle English forms with pop- for pap- (compare α and δ forms) may perhaps be folk etymological alterations after pope n.¹, but are more likely to be simple phonetic variants (compare Middle French (northern) paupegay (15th cent.), Middle Low German poppegoye ). Forms with -n- (compare α, γ, and ε forms) show the common Middle English development of an intrusive n before g (representing both /dʒ/ and /ɡ/: see E. J. Dobson Eng. Pronunc. 1500–1700 (ed. 2, 1968) II. §438, and compare discussion at nightingale n.¹); a parallel development is found in Middle Dutch and Middle Low German, and isolated occurrences of Anglo-Norman papungay and Old French papingai are probably after Middle English or continental Germanic forms. With sense 6 compare post-classical Latin herba papagalli (1618 in Dodoens). Attested earlier as a surname, although it is uncertain whether these reflect the Anglo-Norman or the Middle English word: Ralph Papejaye (1270), Rog. Papunjay (c1311). 1. †a. An ornamental representation of a parrot, esp. on a tapestry. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > ornamental textiles > [noun] > tapestry > representation in popinjay1322 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > pattern or design > [noun] > others popinjay1322 serpent1388 moss-work1600 flame1602 frostwork1631 damask branch1634 mascaron1664 lacework1675 swash1680 branch-work1702 escallop-shella1706 festoon work1712 ovum1728 bricking1760 rising sun1787 ram's horn1842 linen-pattern1845 linen-scroll1854 wheel-rood1862 primal1875 patch ornament1878 tree1879 wheel-cross1882 skeuomorph1889 linenfold1891 taotie1915 boteh1917 pelta1935 starburst1953 quilling1972 towel-pattern- 1322 in Hist. MSS Comm.: Rep. MSS Var. Coll. (1914) VII. 334 in Parl. Papers (Cd. 6722) XXVI. 1 j. vetus sella cum iij. popingayis. c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) 611 Bryddez on semez, As papiayez paynted pernyng bitwene. c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) 5129 With pellicans & pape-ioyes polischt & grauen. 1509 in V. Chinnery Oak Furnit. (1979) 392 A counterpoynt of popynjaye and blonkett. c1560 (a1500) Squyr Lowe Degre (Copland) 798 A cloth of golde abought your heade, With popiniayes pyght with pery read. 1578 T. Nicholas tr. F. Lopez de Gómara Pleasant Hist. Conquest W. India 198 They will make a Parret or Popin Jay of mettall, that his tongue shall shake, and his heade move, and his wings flutter. b. Heraldry. A representation of a parrot as a charge or bearing.Also as the sign of an inn. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > heraldic representations of creatures > [noun] > heraldic birds eaglec1380 swana1400 phoenix?a1425 pelicana1430 ravena1450 merlette1451 popinjayc1460 eagletc1494 merliona1500 martletc1519 merlion?a1549 spread eagle1550 meropie1572 spread eaglet1602 alerion1625 liver1668 shoveller1780 eagle in her majesty?1828 double eagle1861 hirondelle1880 pelican in her piety1885 the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > drinking place > [noun] > tavern or public house > tavern sign lion?a1366 ale stake1396 ivy14.. sunc1400 tokenc1440 eagle1449 chequerc1460 wisp?1507 Saracen's head1510 ale-pole1523 bush1532 wine garland1533 ivy-garland1553 tavern-bush1553 lattice1575 ivy-bush1576 alebush1599 red lattice1604 elephanta1616 sagittarya1616 grate1622 wine-bush1638 popinjay1687 c1460 Bk. Arms in Ancestor (1903) Jan. 231 (MED) Popyngayes of grene beke and fet gowlys. c1500 (?a1475) Assembly of Gods (1896) 817 (MED) A popyniay was hys crest. 1530 T. Wall Bk. Crests in Ancestor (1904) 11 189 Trevylion of Devon beryth to his crest two armes asur the handed silver holdyng a pellet on the which standyth a popingay. 1687 London Gaz. No. 2306/4 And the Thursday after, at the Popinjay in Norwich. 1729 A. Boyer Grand Théatre de l'Honneur 267 Truelove bears..Or, a Popinjay, or Parrot in his delight, Azure. 1768 Hist. City & County Norwich 440 Roger [Popinjay] converted the corner house into an inn, and in allusion to his name put up the sign of the Popinjay. 1790 Peerage Eng., Scotl., & Ireland I. 433 Arms. Argent, on a bend, sable, three popin jays, or, collard, gules. 1881 J. B. Burke Peerage 7/1 (Sir R. J. Abercromby, Bart.) Three papingoes, vert, beaked and membered, gu. 1927 C. K. Bolton Amer. Armory 43 Curzon, Crest: a popinjay rising or, collared gu. 1946 Times 28 Dec. 7/2 Argent a chevron gules between three popinjays vert collared or within a bordure azure bezanty. They are beautifully painted, the popinjays..being drawn as one would expect from an artist who was using a parrot as a model. 2. figurative. †a. With allusion to the beauty and rarity of the bird: a beautiful or praiseworthy person. Obsolete. rare.Cf. later popinjayess n. at Derivatives. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > [noun] > beautiful thing or person > beautiful person lovesomea1350 popinjaya1350 beautya1413 angel1502 good-looker1801 crusher1841 looker1893 a1350 in G. L. Brook Harley Lyrics (1968) 32 He is papeiai in pyn that beteþ me my bale. c1450 J. Lydgate Ballade Our Lady (Sloane) 81 in Minor Poems (1911) i. 258 O popinjay, plumed in clennesse. a1525 (c1448) R. Holland Bk. Howlat l. 125 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 98 He [sc. the Pope] callit on his cubicular..That was ye proper pape Iaye provde in his apparale. b. With allusion to the bird's gaudy plumage or its mechanical repetition of words and phrases: a shallow, vain, or conceited person. Cf. parrot n.¹ 2.In quot. 1767 probably with punning reference to Pape n. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > lack of refinement > [noun] > person popinjay1528 peasant1581 clown1583 indelicate1741 no-neck1961 1528 W. Tyndale Obed. Christen Man f. lxxxix^v The prest ought to..Christen them in the english tonge, and not to playe the popengay with Credo saye ye, volo saye ye and baptismum saye ye, for there ought to be no mummynge in soch a mater. 1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 i. iii. 49 I then, all smarting with my wounds being cold, To be so pestred with a Popingay. a1618 W. Raleigh Disc. Invention Shipping 41 in Judicious & Select Ess. (1650) Popinjayes that value themselves by their out sides, and by their Players coats. 1678 T. Otway Friendship in Fashion v. 57 Shall I draw my Cerberus and cut you off you Gaudy Popinjaies? 1767 R. Forbes Let. 23 Feb. in Lyon in Mourning (1896) III. 217 There is one in Edina..who gives out that my favorite lady is for certain a papagee; that she goes frequently to mass, and that she has two priests in her family. 1787 H. Lewis Excursion to Margate xviii. 77 How my resentment rose to see civic poppinjays in paltry sports profane the spot where..native fierceness softened before the shrine of beauty. 1799 R. Buchanan Wallace ii. vi. 33 If I can find the beardless popinjay, I shall not wait Till he shall strike. 1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe III. v. 126 The fond fool was decked in a painted coat, and jangling as pert and as proud as any popinjay. 1881 W. Besant & J. Rice Chaplain of Fleet II. xi. 216 I think the players are better company than your priggish popinjays. 1934 Times 4 July 11/4 It was all very well to laugh at the popinjays in black shirts, but Fascism was raising its head. 1954 W. de la Mare Sel. Poems (1973) 144 Where's your Psychology, You popinjay? 1995 Times 28 Nov. ii. 33/1 Nothing could depart more outrageously from the norm than Van Dyck's portrait of the shameless popinjay Sir Robert Shirley. 3. A parrot. Now archaic.By 18th cent. ornithological writers sometimes applied spec. to certain South American parrots, following Buffon's usage of French papegai. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Psittaciformes (parrots, etc.) > [noun] > parrot popinjaya1387 psittac?a1425 parrota1529 Poll1600 coxcomb bird1734 poll-parrot1768 Polly1826 anthropoglot1828 feather-top1891 psittacine1949 a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) IV. 307 Oon mette hym wiþ a papengay [L. psittacum] on his hond. c1395 G. Chaucer Merchant's Tale 2322 Syngeth ful murier than the papeiay [v.rr. papeiaye, papegay, popeniay]. a1529 J. Skelton Speke Parrot in Certayne Bks. (?1545) sig. A.v^v Make moche of parrot, the popegay ryall For that pereles prynce, that parrot dyd create. 1559 D. Lindsay Test. Papyngo in Wks. (1931) I. 63 The complaynt of ane woundit Papingo. a1649 W. Drummond Wks. (1711) 156 The Artificial Notes of the learned Popingayes in the Guilt Cages. 1657 J. Owen Rev. Nat. Schism in Wks. (1852) XIII. 164 An empty insignificant word like the speech of parrots and popinjays. 1741 Geogr. & Hist. Descr. Principal Objects War in W.-Indies 125 The Woods are stored with Birds, as Popinjays, some as large as Ravens, and their Tails as long as the Pheasants. 1794 W. Hayes Portraits Rare & Curious Birds I. 25 The Count de Buffon has discriminated..those of the new world into six families; Maccaws, Amazonians, Cricks, Popinjays, long-tailed Paroquets, and short-tailed Paroquets. 1816 W. Scott Old Mortality ii, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. II. 36 The figure of a bird, decked with party-coloured feathers, so as to resemble a popinjay, or parrot. a1854 P. Buchan in R. Chambers Pop. Rhymes Scotl. (1870) 42 The King sent his lady on the first Yule day, a papingo—aye. 1927 E. Lewis Trader Horn (1930) i. ii. 47 Kingfishers I could hardly count on both hands for variability. Gay as popinjays. 1994 P. O'Brian Commodore (1996) v. 111 Look at 'em, like a parcel of popinjays. 4. The colour of the parrot; (now usually) a shade of blue or green. Frequently attributive, as popinjay blue, popinjay colour, popinjay green, popinjay yellow, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > green or greenness > [noun] > shade or tint of green > yellowish green popinjayc1484 parrot green1646 gosling-green1756 siskin green1757 Pomona green1788 chrysoprase1835 Georgian green1918 honeydew1920 Pomona1969 c1484 Inventory Thomas Gylbert (P.R.O.: PROB. 2/12) m.4 Item j jaket of popynjay color—viij d. 1547 R. Record Judic. Uryne 16 b There are also oyle coloures (that is popingey grene) of iii sortes. 1577 N. Breton Floorish vpon Fancie sig. Ciiij^v The colours of her cloth, are..Red, Blew, Greene, Carnation, Yealow, & Popyngay. 1587 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. (1877) ii. vii. i. 172 I might here name..hewes deuised for the nonce..as..popingaie blue. 1622 H. Peacham Compl. Gentleman xii. 114 If more inclining to a Popingiay, adde more Pinke to your white Lead. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xix. 157/2 All mixt colours..as carnation, Oreng-tawny, Sky colour, Popengie, Russett, are bastard and dishonorable colours. 1719 T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth II. 19 Beck had a Coat of Popin-jay. 1747 G. Bickham Gen. Rules Painting in Oils & Water-colours 16 For a Popinjay, temper Pink, and a little Indico. 1865 Notes & Queries 3rd Ser. 8 372/2 Popinjay-green, philomel-yellow, &c., no longer appear in the Army Lists. 1936 J. B. Black Reign of Elizabeth 228 All this fantastic dress..was a glow of colour of the most bizarre description—popinjay blue, pease-porridge tawny, goose-turd green, lustygallant, Judas colour, &c. 1953 C. de Banke Shakespearean Stage Production 158 (table) Popinjay, blue-green, peacock blue..used by courtesans, especially for sleeves. 2000 Daily Mail (Nexis) 4 Nov. 55 It is a beautiful jacket, as popinjay green as the parakeets flying around the fort. 5. Archery. A target made of bunches of plumage, etc., fixed to a pole at different heights; the form of archery in which this is the target. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > competitive shooting > archery > [noun] > archery target bercelc1440 butt1440 shell1497 rover1511 standing pricka1525 round1531 popinjay1548 prick-mark1553 Turk1569 twelve (also twenty-four) score prick1569 garden butt1572 parrot1578 clout1584 hoyle1614 shaw-fowl1621 prick wanda1650 goal1662 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. lx I sawe on a Sondaye this Lent .vi. C. straungiers shotyng at ye Popyngaye with Crosbowes. 1630 tr. G. Botero Relations Famous Kingdomes World (rev. ed.) 185 There is in each City a shooting with the Peece at a Popingay of wood, set upon some high Steeple. 1688 in Trans. Glasgow Archaeol. Soc. (1896) New Ser. 2 324 At Kilwinning..in order to the restoring of the ancient game of the papingo. 1794 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. XI. 173 One is a perpendicular mark, called a popingoe..cut out in wood, fixed in the end of a pole, and placed 120 feet high, on the steeple of the monastery. 1816 W. Scott Old Mortality ii, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. II. 36 The chief [sport] was to shoot at the popinjay. 1825 C. M. Westmacott Eng. Spy II. 8 We'll shoot at pride and poppinjays. 1894 Times 7 Dec. 13/2 Shooting from horseback at full gallop at a popinjay on the top of a pole was performed for my entertainment. 1908 Times 17 July 10/4 In France there are two distinct descriptions of shooting, the ‘tir à la perche’ or popinjay, which is practised in the north, and the ‘tir au jardin’, which is the favourite in the south. 1939 P. Gordon New Archery I. ii. 15 Another popular Continental form of archery is..shooting at the perch—of popinjays or ‘birds’, as they are now called. 1989 Times 4 Mar. 54/3 There are various archery disciplines: target, field, archery,..popinjay (which attempts to simulate loosing at a head peering over a battlement). †6. A kind of plant with green or variegated leaves, apparently a pot-herb (not identified). Obsolete.The name might perhaps refer either to Amaranthus tricolor or to Swiss chard, Beta vulgaris variant. Cf. symphonia n.² ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > unidentified or variously identified plants > [noun] smearwortc725 evenlesteneOE hovec1000 hindheala1300 vareworta1300 falcc1310 holwort1350 spigurnela1400 rush?a1425 buck's tonguec1450 lich-walec1450 lich-wortc1450 vine-bind1483 finter-fanter?a1500 heartwood1525 wake-wort1530 Our Lady's gloves1538 bacchar1551 hog's snout1559 centron1570 lady's glove1575 sharewort1578 kite's-foot1580 Magdalene1589 astrophel1591 eileber1597 exan1597 blue butterflower1599 bybbey1600 oenothera1601 rhodora1601 shamefaced1605 mouse-foot1607 Byzantine1621 popinjay1629 priest's bonnet1685 Indian weed1687 foal-bit1706 shepherd's bodkin1706 bottle-head1714 walking leaf1718 French apple1736 bugleweed1771 night-weed1810 beggar-weed1878 1629 J. Parkinson Paradisi in Sole ii. xxxvii. 504 The great ribs of the Popingay, and deepe greene Colewortes, beeing boyled..are serued to the table with oyle and vinegar in the Lent time. 1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words Popingey,..also an Herb, so called from being of the colour of that bird, being a kinde of greenish colour, this Herb is called in Latin Symphonia. 7. British regional. The green woodpecker, Picus viridis. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Piciformes > [noun] > family Picidae > genus Picus (woodpecker) > picus viridis (green woodpecker) rain-fowl1440 woodwall1490 speight1513 hickwall?1533 rainbird1544 woodspite1555 green-peak1598 yaffingale1609 pick-a-tree1615 witwall1668 storm cock1769 nicker-pecker1787 yaffle1792 awl-bird1802 popinjay1802 yaffler1802 dirt-bird1847 yuckle1847 stock eagle1884 nicker1886 1612 H. Peacham Gentlemans Exercise 128 Terpsichore would bee expressed..vppon her head a coronet of..those greene feathers of the poppiniaie, in token of that victory, which the Muses got of..the daughters of Pierius,..who after were turned into poppiniaies or wood-peckers.] 1802 G. Montagu Ornithol. Dict. at Woodpecker—Green Provincial... Poppinjay. 1894 A. Newton Dict. Birds Popinjay..has in this country been transferred to the Green Woodpecker. 1901 T. Hardy Poems Past & Present 73 My popinjays fail from their tappings. Derivatives ˈpopinjayess n. a beautiful woman (cf. sense 2a).Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ 1890 ‘W. A. Wallace’ Only a Sister 192 You sweet future popinjayess. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1322
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