popinjay nell'Oxford Spanish Dictionary

Traduzioni di popinjay nel dizionario inglese»spagnolo

popinjay [ingl am ˈpɑpənˌdʒeɪ, ingl brit ˈpɒpɪndʒeɪ] SOST letter

popinjay

presumido m / presumida f

Esempi monolingue (non verificati dalla Redazione di PONS)

inglese

You're a popinjay who thinks that rugby is all running and passing.

www.stuff.co.nz

Many of these ladies would find out, rather belatedly, that their concepts of love and idealism have meant nothing to these crooks and popinjays.

www.ghanaweb.com

There are no international standard rules of popinjay.

en.wikipedia.org

And by enlightening others, we would have severed the trail of broken hearts and rendered the popinjays powerless, for knowledge, we are told, is power.

www.ghanaweb.com

Importantly, this also suggests that the same paint was used on the popinjay and the background.

spie.org

We became ribald popinjays living on the outer fringes of other peoples' lives.

thenationonlineng.net

This led us to conclude that the green background was applied on the entire wall first, varnished, and the popinjay was then painted on top.

spie.org

Let me expose a typical modus operandi of these popinjays.

www.ghanaweb.com

Some of the very many similar alternative terms are: coxcomb, fribble, popinjay (meaning parrot), fashion-monger, and ninny.

en.wikipedia.org

I do hope he doesn't, for neither of those serious statesmen deserves the insult of being compared with this popinjay.

www.telegraph.co.uk