Synonyms for popinjay
All synonyms
Noun
1. Dude — A vain, gaudy person; someone who is shallow or superficial
dandy, peacock, coxcomb, spliff, cock's comb, fribble, spark, gallant, masher, dude dated, blood dated, swell dated, exquisite rare, beau dated, buck dated UK, jack-a-dandy dated, macaroni dated, fop dated, puss-gentleman dated, petit maître dated, toff dated, foretop dated
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Definitions
- n. 1
A vain, gaudy person; someone who is shallow or superficial.
Related words
- Other spellings
- poppinjay
Forms
- Plural
- popinjays → dandies, peacocks, coxcombs, spliffs…
Example sentences
- peacock It's a peacock. It was a peacock that cried just now.
- dandy Not everything in Morocco is fine and dandy.
- coxcomb He plays neither jack-pudding nor coxcomb.
- parrot Sami would talk to his parrot for hours and hours.
By length
- 3 letters
- fop1
- 4 letters
- dude1, buck1, beau1, toff1
- 5 letters
- blood1, spark1, swell1, dandy2
- 6 letters
- parrot2, spliff, masher
- 7 letters
- peacock2, gallant2, coxcomb, foretop, fribble
- 8 letters
- macaroni4
- 9 letters
- exquisite3
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (dandy2 = 2 syllables).