popinjay

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• This week actor Alan Rachins, better known as the balding popinjay Douglas Brackman of "L.A. Law," shucks his pinstripes for something more daring. He Left His Briefs Behind
• That said, I cannot imagine she got the run around from popinjay Hitchens. Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?
• E'en sae, Milnwood," replied Cuddie; "for the puir quean gat leave to come near me wi 'speaking the loun fair, (d-- n him, that I suld say sae!) and sae she bade me God speed, and she wanted to stap siller into my hand; -- I'se warrant it was the tae half o' her fee and bountith, for she wared the ither half on pinners and pearlings to gang to see us shoot yon day at the popinjay. Old Mortality, Complete
• Defending the absurd notion that the windbaggery of Mr. Galloway is somehow a threat to our national security, a spokesperson for the virginal Jason Kenney, Alykhan Velshi, referred to Gorgeous George as "someone who has provided financial support to Hamas, a banned terrorist organization in Canada, and someone who is, in a sense, a popinjay for those Taliban fighters who are trying to kill Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan. Archive 2009-03-01
• The Englishman held a lofty finger in the air, and his flocculent hair blew upright in the sea breeze, giving him the look of an unfashionable popinjay.
• I am pretty sure I'm a drink-soaked popinjay myself, and formerly many things of a disreputable nature.
• 'Not prinking English popinjay families with too much bloody money.' Sharpe's Tiger
• The Premiership has produced a marvellous cast of popinjays and prima-donnas.
• It is an oft-told story, but can still stir anger and pity, with the family feuding of the aristocratic popinjays commanding the brigade even spilling over onto the battlefield.
• Words come to mind that I can't print in their entirety, that the tribunal is full of petty popinjay chickens**ts. On Public Universities And Guns