Hypertext Webster Gateway: "popinjay"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Yaffle \Yaf"fle\, n. [Probably imitative of its call or cry.]
(Zo["o]l.)
The European green woodpecker ({Picus, or Genius, viridis}).
It is noted for its loud laughlike note. Called also {eccle},
{hewhole}, {highhoe}, {laughing bird}, {popinjay}, {rain
bird}, {yaffil}, {yaffler}, {yaffingale}, {yappingale},
{yackel}, and {woodhack}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Popinjay \Pop"in*jay\, n. [OE. popingay, papejay, OF. papegai,
papegaut; cf. Pr. papagai, Sp. & Pg. papagayo, It.
pappagallo, LGr. ?, NGr. ?; in which the first syllables are
perhaps imitative of the bird's chatter, and the last either
fr. L. gallus cock, or the same word as E. jay, F. geai. Cf.
{Papagay}.]
1. (Zo["o]l.)
(a) The green woodpecker.
(b) A parrot.
The pye and popyngay speak they know not what.
--Tyndale.
2. A target in the form of a parrot. [Scot.]
3. A trifling, chattering, fop or coxcomb. ``To be so
pestered with a popinjay.'' --Shak.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
popinjay
n 1: a vain and talkative person (chatters like a parrot)
2: archaic
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