Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An old form of popinjay.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete A popinjay.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Obsolete form of popinjay.

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  • The sparhauke and the papejay may easily be paralleled by passages containing references to source.

    Early Theories of Translation Flora Ross Amos

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