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ลองค้นหาคำในรูปแบบอื่น ๆ เพื่อให้ได้ผลลัพธ์มากขึ้นหรือน้อยลง: -popinjay-, *popinjay*
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English-Thai: NECTEC's Lexitron-2 Dictionary [with local updates]
popinjay(n) นกแก้ว
popinjay(n) คนพูดไร้สาระมาก, See also: คนช่างพูดเกินไป

WordNet (3.0)
popinjay(n) a vain and talkative person (chatters like a parrot)
popinjay(n) an archaic term for a parrot

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English (GCIDE) v.0.53
Popinjay

n. [ OE. popingay, papejay, OF. papegai, papegaut; cf. Pr. papagai, Sp. & Pg. papagayo, It. pappagallo, LGr. &unr_;, NGr. &unr_;; 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. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Zool.) (a) The green woodpecker. (b) A parrot. [ 1913 Webster ]

The pye and popyngay speak they know not what. Tyndale. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A target in the form of a parrot. [ Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A trifling, chattering, fop or coxcomb. “To be so pestered with a popinjay.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thai-English-French: Volubilis Dictionary 1.0
ผีเสื้อธารมรกต[phīseūa thān morakot] (n, exp) EN: Popinjay

Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary (pronunciation guide only)
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