| 20 answers for: An old word for parrots, thus beaus, coxcombs, dan... |
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| RANK | ANSWER | CLUE |
| POPINJAYS | An old word for parrots, thus beaus, coxcombs, dandies, dudes, fops or other excessively talkative or extravagantly dressed "peacocks" (9) |
| COPYCATS | Feline word for parrots or apes |
| TWOPIECE | Couple made for each other, excessively quiet when talking |
| UNDULY | Thunderously dismisses others excessively (6) |
| BUCKS | Word for billy goats, harts or stags; bodies of carts; dandies or fops; dollars, rands or rupees; markers for cards/poker; or, vaulting-horses (5) |
| BEAU | From Latin for "charming, fine, gay, handsome", a man attentive to dress or fashion, aka a dandy or a fop; or, a belle or maiden's ardent admirer, boyfriend, lover, spark or swain (4) |
| PRIG | Word for a coxcomb, petty thief or tinker in the 16th century, thus a disliked precisian, prude or puritan, behaving as if superior to others (4) |
| COXCOMB | A court fool or jester's cap, named for its shape and colour, like a rooster's red crest; or, a dandy, fop or popinjay, who is conceited, foolish and vain (7) |
| FOPPERY | From "fool", a word for vanity in dress/manners; folly; or, affectations, clothes, obsessions etc befitting a beau, coxcomb, popinjay or swell (7) |
| LOVEBIRDS | Deep affection for those building nests for parrots (9) |
| SWELL | A bulge; a rise; a heaving of the sea; a loudening; or, a fop or a beau (5) |
| POPINJAY | A fop or coxcomb (8) |
| FOPS | Dandies and coxcombs! (4) |
| MOUTHY | Excessively talkative (6) |
| GARRULOUS | Excessively talkative |
| WINDBAG | Excessively talkative person (7) |
| GABBY | Excessively talkative |
| ROOSTS | Perches for parrots |
| CAGE | Place for parrots |
| MACAWS | Apple computer was complicated for parrots (6) |
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