Meanings
nounpopjoying (uncountable)
- datedrareuncountablesport; 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
Perhaps connected with popinjay.
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popjoying. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/popjoying
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