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papingo

papingo noun: parrot (bird).

Noun

papingo (plural papingos or papingoes)

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

Forms of papingo

pluralpapingos
pluralpapingoes
alternative formpapingoe
alternative formpopingo

Origin of papingo

Borrowed from Scots papingo, ultimately from Old French papegai. Cognate to popinjay, German Papagei, Dutch papegaai.

Questions about papingo

What does papingo mean?
Papingo means parrot (bird).
What part of speech is papingo?
Papingo is a noun.
What is the plural of papingo?
The plural of papingo is papingos.

Words near papingo in the dictionary

  1. papilotomy
  2. Papin
  3. Papinachois
  4. Papineau
  5. Papineaus
  6. papingo
  7. papingoes
  8. papingos
  9. Papinianian
  10. Papins
  11. papion

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Adapted from Wiktionary: papingo (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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