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popjoying

popjoying noun: sport; amusement.

Noun

popjoying (uncountable)

  1. (dated, rare) sport; amusement.
    • Tom […] became a fisherman from that day. Within a month from the taking of the first stickleback, Benjy had carried off our hero to the canal, in defiance of Charity; and between them, after a whole afternoon's popjoying, they had caught three or four small, coarse fish […]1857, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's School Days

Origin of popjoying

Perhaps connected with popinjay.

Questions about popjoying

What does popjoying mean?
Popjoying means sport; amusement.
What part of speech is popjoying?
Popjoying is a noun.

Words near popjoying in the dictionary

  1. popishness
  2. popism
  3. popist
  4. popists
  5. Popiv Yar
  6. popjoying
  7. Popkin
  8. Popkins
  9. POPLA
  10. poplar
  11. Poplar Bluff

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