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Recent Examples of popinjay
Robin Hood and the avenging bandido Murrieta, as well as novelist Baroness Orczy’s entirely fictional Scarlet Pimpernel, the secret identity of the British popinjay who saves French aristocrats from the Reign of Terror.
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Washington Post, 1 Jan. 2021
There was a tiny popinjay of a man with a Windsor knot and a pink tie.
—Rebecca Keegan, VanityFair.com, 21 Jan. 2017
Washington Post, 1 Jan. 2021
There was a tiny popinjay of a man with a Windsor knot and a pink tie.
—Rebecca Keegan, VanityFair.com, 21 Jan. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for popinjay
Noun
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The film chronicles a rich fop who studies a magic manual and teaches himself how to achieve X-ray vision and clairvoyance.—
The New Yorker,
The New Yorker,
29 Sep. 2023
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The telegrams lead to the arrival of Sylvia’s husband (and Beau’s brother), the tweedy fop Clarke (Alex Moffat, playing him a little Biden-esque), as well as Beau’s very pregnant wife, Marjorie (Lilli Cooper), both of whom have secrets of their own.—
Vulture,
Vulture,
24 July 2023
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“Popinjay.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/popinjay. Accessed 1 May. 2025.
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