Crossword-Solution: POPINJAYS 9 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 23

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Coxcombs (and a hint to solving this puzzle) 1 answer
Vain or ostentatious people showing off like flashy birds 1 answer
Self-centered chatterboxes 1 answer
Fops 4 answers
Beau Brummells. 4 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EERTA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with POPINJAYS (5)

When he looked around in the club he saw only a lot of conceited popinjays too selfish to think of making a good woman happy.
End of the Tether Joseph Conrad 2006
And he hath of certain men as though they were yeomen, that keep birds, as ostriches, gerfalcons, sparrow-hawks, falcons gentle, lanyers, sakers, sakrets, popinjays well speaking, and birds singing, and also of wild beasts, as of elephants tame and other, baboons, apes, marmosets, and other diverse beasts; the mountance of fifteen cumants of yeomen.
The Travels of Sir John Mandeville John Mandeville 2014
Pit my sons, My three brave sons, against these popinjays, These tufted jack-a-dandy featherheads, And on the issue let thy hand depend! Princess: Insult on insult's head! Are we a stake For fighting men? What fiend possesses thee, That thou has come with offers such as these From such as he to such an one as I? Gama: I am possessed By the pale devil of a shaking heart! My stubborn will is bent.
The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan William Schwenk Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan 2009
After all, except you gentlemen, who is there that will miss Samuel Quick?” Then without waiting for an answer, drawing himself up straight as a ramrod he marched off to assist some popinjays of Abati officers, whom he hated and who hated him, to instil the elements of drill into a newly raised company, leaving me to wonder what fears or premonitions filled his honest soul.
Queen Sheba’s Ring H. Rider Haggard 2001
Perry, and they both bowed and scraped, until Patty went off in a gale of laughter and said: "You ridiculous boys, you look like popinjays! But here comes Marie; now more homage is due." Marie came down the steps slowly and gracefully, looking very pretty in pale green, with tiny pink rosebuds for trimming.
Patty's Suitors Carolyn Wells 2004
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Appears in: NYT, USA TODAY, WP.

Used 4 times in crossword archives (1954–2014).