papingo
English
Alternative forms
- papingoe
- popingo
Etymology
Borrowed from Scots papingo, ultimately from Old French papegai. Cognate to popinjay, German Papagei, Dutch papegaai.
Noun
papingo (plural papingoes)
- (Scotland) parrot (bird)
- (Scotland) popinjay (bird-shaped target in archery)
Scots
Alternative forms
- papingoe
- popingo
Etymology
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
papingo (plural papingoes)
- parrot (bird)
- popinjay (bird-shaped target in archery)
Descendants
- → English: papingo
Further reading
- “papingo”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–, OCLC 57069714.