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• n  a vain and talkative person (chatters like a parrot)
• n  an archaic term for a parrot

• One belonged to a popinjay character called Reginald, who discoursed in a series of semiprecious mots: "I hate posterity.
• A vain man, he affected popinjay dress against the dun background of Pennsylvania Quakers, crow's raiment in dandiacal English society.
• The popinjay, balked in blackmailing Jubilee Jim, shot him dead.

News & Articles

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• Handbag company lifts Pakistani women from poverty
  Popinjay is a high-end handbag company that attracts customers with lush leather and hand-embroidered silk. The designs draw inspiration from Mughal screens, Turkish tiles and Jerusalem's Dome of the Rock. But the Pakistani women who embroider them were once deeply impoverished.
  Feb. 6, 2014 - CNN Money
• Company eases Pakistani women's poverty
  By switching to a for-profit model, handbag label Popinjay secured better investments, the right employees and is able to help more low-income Pakistani women.
  Feb. 6, 2014 - CNN Money

Quotes

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• George Galloway in Socialist Worker Online
  Galloway responded by bellowing over the cameras, "Christopher, your hands are shaking. Go and have another drink......You are a drink-sodden, former Trotskyite popinjay."
• Bob Brown in Asia Times Online
  How dare this popinjay of a president interfere in Australian affairs - Australian domestic political affairs? He should pull his head in,said Dr Brown in a statement to the Australian Broadcasting Corp's) World Today program. "The...