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Examples
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He hates the little struttin poppinjay- it all started when GW Clustefuck strutted across the deck of the carrier off the shores of San Diego.
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As I've already informed you, I came across the young poppinjay and the girl sweethearting on Moor Fields.
Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera' Charles Edward Pearce
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The nightingale, the poppinjay, the gentle laverock.
A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide John Ashton
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"Did you hit me; you dod-gasted old poppinjay of a fat dude!" he exclaimed, shaking a brawny, freckled fist at Harding.
John Henry Smith A Humorous Romance of Outdoor Life Frederick Upham Adams 1890
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William Pitt, labouring under the debilitating ravages of a fever, is a weaker animal than the thrice-essenced poppinjay, who mounts his feathered helmet, when he should be learning his
Letter to the Women of England, on the Injustice of Mental Subordination 1799
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If strength or weakness are not allowed to orginate in the faculty of thought, Charles Fox, or William Pitt, labouring under the debilitating ravages of a fever, is a weaker animal than the thrice-essenced poppinjay, who mounts his feathered helmet, when he should be learning his Greek alphabet.
Letter to the Women of England, on the Injustice of Mental Subordination 1799
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you may think that paul is a strutting poppinjay - a suited axis dictator - but that is just a "picture" and not accurate.
"Libertarians are incapable of being a racist, because racism is a collectivist idea." Ann Althouse 2008
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