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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