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Live, Online Tutoring from eSylvan Customized math & reading programs; Certified Teachers; Guaranteed Results! Click here for a special introductory offer. http://by.advertising.com/1/c/62072/33027/103890/103890 <a href="http://by.advertising.com/1/c/62072/33027/103890/103890"< AOL users click here </a< \----------------------------------------------------------------/ Word of the Day for Monday October 22, 2001: popinjay \POP-in-jay\, noun: A vain and talkative person. One popinjay shrieking from the left and another from the right about last week's headlines is not the whole of Washington's political dramas. Occasionally, American politics is more complicated and more momentous. --R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., "Feds Go Drug Crazy," American Spectator, May 26, 2000 A writer who appreciates the seriousness of writing so little that he is anxious to make people see he is formally educated, cultured or well-bred is merely a popinjay. --Ernest Hemingway, [1]Death in the Afternoon The dignified, high density of personality of [Clark Gable and Humphrey Bogart] is completely missing from our popinjay contemporary actors. --Camille Paglia, [2]Salon, March 1998 _________________________________________________________ Popinjay is from Middle English papejay, popingay, meaning "parrot," from Old French papegai, deriving ultimately from Arabic babagha. References 1. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0684801450/lexico 2. http://www.salon.com/ _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ You are currently subscribed to Dictionary.com Word of the Day as: susan.w.pereira@enron.com To subscribe to the list by email, send a blank message to: join-WordoftheDay@lists.lexico.com To unsubscribe via email, send a blank message to: leave-wordoftheday-301289Q@lists.lexico.com Subscriptions can be turned on and off from the Web at http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/list/ Dictionary.com Word of the Day http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/ (C) 2001, Lexico LLC.
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