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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 pop·in·jay /ˈpɑpənˌʤe/
 多嘴而愛裝腔作勢的人,花花公子,綠色的啄木鳥,鸚鵡

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Pop·in·jay n.
 1. Zool. (a) The green woodpecker. (b) A parrot.
    The pye and popyngay speak they know not what.   --Tyndale.
 2. A target in the form of a parrot. [Scot.]
 3. A trifling, chattering, fop or coxcomb. “To be so pestered with a popinjay.”
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 popinjay
      n 1: a vain and talkative person (chatters like a parrot)
      2: archaic