papingo
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English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Scots papingo, ultimately from Old French papegai. Cognate to popinjay, German Papagei, Dutch papegaai.
Noun
[edit]papingo (plural papingos or papingoes)
Scots
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Ultimately from Old French papegai. Cognate to English popinjay, German Papagei, Dutch papegaai. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Noun
[edit]papingo (plural papingoes)
Descendants
[edit]- → English: papingo
Further reading
[edit]- “papingo”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.