Aye louder screamed that ladye fair To drown her doggie's bark: Ever the lover shouted mair To make that ladye hark: Shrill and more shrill the popinjay Upraised his angry squall: I trow the doggie's voice that day Was louder than them all!
Then up and spake the popinjay That flew abune her head: "Gae let him in that tirls the pin: He cometh thee to wed.
O gin I had a popinjay To fly abune my head, To tell me what I ought to say, I had by this been wed.
Thy popinjay is a traitor, and his crimes have found him out!
I know her tricks, and I learn how she hath suffered that damned milk-and-water popinjay to come courting my Poll.
When they first appear a note of the current meaning is given, for instance "popinjay [parrot]".
Where can yon little popinjay [parrot] have hid her?
After dinner, when young Aaron asks popinjay Rawls to ride with his party a mile or two on the return journey, the fiery, ill-used one grows more embarrassed.
The interfering angelic sisterly ones declare that popinjay Neddy meant nothing by his letter, and will never write another.
The popinjay fiery Rawls is present, but embarrassed.
There is one exception; a popinjay personage named Rawls, retorts in a hectic epistle which, while conveying his resignation, avows a determination to welter in young Aaron's blood as a slight solace for the outrage done his feelings.
Also, he will assert it in such fashion that not a popinjay of them all will be able to make his dismissal the basis of military inquiry, and keep his credit clean.
Young Aaron writes, word for word, the same letter to each of the undesirable popinjay ones.
Whereupon young Aaron observes he will be content with the understanding that popinjay Neddy send him no more letters, unless they have been first submitted to the sisterly censorship of the angelic three.
Waterloo Place, Wellington Road, Regent's Park, London; and I can shoot at a popinjayas well as another.
This was the figure of a bird decked with parti-coloured feathers, so as to resemble a popinjay or parrot.
But the Popinjay and the Squawk and the Redpecker departed without a word of thanks for all the food they had eaten and all the trouble they had caused.
I cast a troubled glance at her from my pillow, where she sat by my bed sewing on a pair of wrist-bands for some popinjay of the garrison--God knew who he might be!
I am like a poor popinjay tied to a stake, where every boy archer may bend his bow at me, and I do nothing but sit still and endure.
XII Then up and spake the popinjay That sat upon the tree; ‘Gae hame, gae hame, ye fause lady, And pay your maids their fee.
Ned diverted us all by making her present of a popinjay [parrot], the which he brought with him, and did set in care of Faith Murthwaite till Nell's birthday came.
Item, a pair of hose of popinjay green (they be well called popinjay) of thirty shillings.
These also zealously maintained the cross-bow at their prize-shootings; the popinjay was seldom erected, except at smaller meetings, where it was long upheld.
But, on the frontiers of this group, at Halle, another association began, the centre of which was Magdeburg; here the popinjay was more frequent.
Again, the cities of the great province of Silesia were in close union, with Breslau for their centre point; there the popinjay shooting attained to its highest development, and the festivals were very frequent.
There was a cabinet or museum here, too, to inspect, and the curious old spectacle of the popinjay to be witnessed, in company with the Grand Duke of Weimar and his son.
On the Queen's return from the popinjay she had the happiness to meet Baroness Lehzen, her old governess, who had come from Buckeburg to see her Majesty.
The very quintessence of popinjay vulgarity is reached when nicely is made to do service for well, in this wise: "How do you do?
This is not American English, Professor, but popinjay English.
To which the popinjay responded, "We are all Mother Carey's chickens.
If she had been a beautiful duchess, Popinjay Parlour would have been a sort of salon bleu; but it was really a kind of paradise to a good many clever, hardworked men and women.
Indeed, Popinjay Parlour was the family title of this delightful abode; but it might almost as well have been called Mother Carey's bower.
Who could have told a skylark in such popinjay attire?
Moreover, he had just hit the popinjay with a skill which his imperial father might have envied, and presided at burgher banquets with a grace which Charles could have hardly matched.
According to custom, the captains of the guild suspended a golden popinjay around the neck of his Highness, and placing themselves in procession, followed him to the great church.
Some more of La Barre's men arrived three days ago by boat, under a popinjay they call Cassion to recruit De Baugis' forces.
No, but I hear he is something of a popinjay in his attire, and swelled up with the conceit that he is better than any of us colonists.
You had better go now and marry that conceited popinjay up at Jo Putnam's, if you can get him.
The popinjay at this moment turned, and fired back at Felicia her own gun.
But the popinjay could not sing, and had no invitation to stay.
Time, to use Rosalind's simile, has hitherto paced with the hero of our tale; for betwixt Morton's first appearance as a competitor for the popinjay and his final departure for Holland hardly two months elapsed.
But a young popinjay of a Master of Oliphant, as Robbie Beatoun had justly said!
The poor popinjay was too brave a bird to be Thibaut d'Aussigny's decoy-duck.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "popinjay" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
