See also:

• POPINJAY (O. Fr. papegai, or popingay, onomatopoeic, original)

POPINJAY (O. Fr. papegai, or popingay, onomatopoeic, See also:

• ORIGINAL

original)  , an old name for a See also:

• PARROT (according to Skeat, from Fr. Perrot or Pies-rot, the diminutive of the proper name Pierrel)

parrot . Except in its transferred sense of a dressed-up, vain or conceited, empty-headed See also:

• PERSON, OFFENCES AGAINST THE

person, the word is now only used historically of a See also:

• REPRESENTATION

representation or See also:

• IMAGE (Lat. imago, perhaps from the same root as imitari, copy, imitate)

image of a parrot swinging from a high See also:

• POLE (FAMILY)
• POLE, REGINALD (1500-1558)
• POLE, RICHARD DE LA (d. 1525)
• POLE, WILLIAM (1814—1900)

pole and used as a See also:

• MARK
• MARK, CARL (1858– )
• MARK, GOSPEL OF ST
• MARK, ST

mark for See also:

• ARCHERY

archery or See also:

• SHOOTING

shooting matches . This shooting at the See also:

• POPINJAY (O. Fr. papegai, or popingay, onomatopoeic, original)

popinjay (see ARCHERY) was formerly a favourite See also:

• SPORT (a contracted or shortened form of "disport," to amuse, divert oneself, O. Fr. se dis porter or deporter, to leave off work, hence to play, Lat. dis-, away, and portare, to carry; the origin of the meaning lies in the notion of turning away from ser

sport . " Popinjay " is still the proper heraldic See also:

• TERM

term for a parrot as a bearing or See also:

• CHARGE
• CHARGE (through the Fr. from the Late Lat. carricare, to load in a carrus or wagon; cf. " cargo ")

charge .