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 papingos or papingoes)

1. (Scotland) parrot (bird)
2. (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)

1. parrot (bird)
2. popinjay (bird-shaped target in archery)

Descendants

• → English: papingo

Further reading

• “papingo”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.