"Papejay" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Duff. Gaunt is sometimes a dialect form of gannet, used in Lincolnshire of the crested grebe. Popjoy may have been applied to the successful archer who became king of the popinjay for the year. The derivation of the word, Old Fr. papegai, whence Mid. Eng. papejay— ...
— The Romance of Names • Ernest Weekley |
