Posted on 09/23/2009 6:20:00 AM PDT by VRWCmember
In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
popinjay • \PAH-pin-jay\ • noun 
a strutting supercilious person
Example sentence:
Shopping was going fine until, in one of the boutiques, a popinjay of a sales clerk clearly snubbed us.
Did you know?
Popinjays and parrots are birds of a feather. "Popinjay," from the Middle French word "papegai," is the original name for a parrot in English. (The French word in turn came from the Arabic word for the bird, "babghā." "Parrot," which English speakers adopted later, probably comes from Middle French "perroquet.") In the days of Middle English, parrots were rare and exotic, and it was quite a compliment to be called a "popinjay" after such a beautiful bird. But by the 1500s, parrots had become more commonplace, and their gaudy plumage and vulgar mimicry helped "popinjay" develop the pejorative sense we use today.
Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the Word for the Day in a sentence.
The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day.
The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-)
Practice makes perfect.....post on....
Review Threads:
Review Thread One: Word For The Day, Thursday 11/14/02: Raffish (Be SURE to check out posts #92 and #111 on this thread!)
Review Thread Two: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/14/03: Roister
Review Thread Three: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/28/03: Obdurate
Review Thread Four: Word For the Day, Friday 7/25/03: Potation
Review Thread Five: Word For the Day, Monday 8/19/03: Stolid
Review Thread Six: Word for the Day, Tuesday 11/09/2004: Peripatetic (Post #125 may be my best anagram post ever)
see, just when I despair in my church a man like this stands up to be counted. Praise God.
it all gets sorted out in the end.....Jesus does not waiver in his views, not one little bit.
Michael Steele is acting like a popinjay on the abortion issue
Please do NOT listen to this video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=CA&hl=en&v=zKH3iemEd-A
If anyone, at any time, under any circumstances, asks you to listen to this video, ignore them and turn the sound off.
can you please assuage SG’s fears for your wellbeing, she was worried you were floating off somehere, lost forever!
I agree with the person who said “play it at Gitmo”...lol
What’s with the green tie and blue shirt?
“NO COUNTRY SHOULD BE FORCED TO ACCEPT THE TYRANNY OF IT’S OWN PEOPLE”
Seriously, he said that? OMG
I need a faster mouse. On the touchpad, I can only score in the hillary range.
Not to worry, my dear Rob’t -— I don’t do YouTube.
Now, if I could not do rain, I would be a REALLY happy camper. I can’t believe it is raining again.
funny
Chief popinjay of the world is addressing the UN, aka the bar scene in Star Wars, and is disgusting.
We can never make fun of France again, as France would never elect someone who hates France.
Yikes..........I can’t get out of Hillary :(
Will have to check the full transcript to verify once it's released.
"This Assembly's Charter commits each of us — and I quote — "to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women." Among those rights is the freedom to speak your mind and worship as you please; the promise of equality of the races, and the opportunity for women and girls to pursue their own potential; the ability of citizens to have a say in how you are governed, and to have confidence in the administration of justice. For just as no nation should be forced to accept the tyranny of another nation, no individual should be forced to accept the tyranny of their own people..."
My compadre in PIT informs they’ll be closing the office there for the two days b/c of the summit...
OK, that would make more sense...
(Unless by ‘individual’, he means himself or any other elected official who are duty-bound to listen to the will of the people.)
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