parrotn.¹

Brit.

/ˈparət/, U.S.

/ˈpɛrət/

Forms: 1500s parate, 1500s paret, 1500s parott, 1500s parotte, 1500s parrote, 1500s parrotte, 1500s–1600s parat, 1500s–1600s parot, 1500s–1700s parrat, 1500s–1700s parret, 1500s– parrot.

Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps a borrowing from French. Etymons: French Perrot, Pierrot.

Etymology: Origin uncertain. Perhaps < French Perrot, variant of Pierrot, diminutive of the male forename Pierre (compare Pierrot n.). Compare French pierrot house sparrow (1694), Occitan parrat small bird, sparrow (1649), Occitan (Gascon) parròt tit, perròt turkey (also ‘simpleton’). (The sense ‘parrot’ is not recorded for French Perrot before 1752 and then is probably a shortening of perroquet parakeet n. rather than an application of the forename.)The male forename Perrot is not recorded in 16th-cent. English as such, but it may be recorded earlier as a surname William le Perot (1277) and in a farm name: Parott (Surrey 1489). The surname Parrat is recorded in the 16th cent. For the application of human personal names to parrots, compare also parakeet n. (with a related derivation), and Poll n.³, Polly n.¹ In quot. a1529 at sense 1a, Parrot may be partly (perhaps punningly) understood as the bird's personal name; compare this from the same text:a1529 J. Skelton Speke Parrot in Certayne Bks. (?1545) sig. A.ii Speke parrot I pray you, full curtesly they say Parrot is a goodly byrd, a prety Popagey. An alternative suggestion derives the word from Spanish pajarote large bird (1576–7) < pájaro bird ( < classical Latin passer sparrow (see Passeres n.)) + -ote, augmentative suffix. The Spanish word, however, is only attested later than English parrot and the suggested derivation presents formal as well as semantic difficulties.

a. Any of numerous fruit- and seed-eating birds of the order Psittaciformes of the tropics and southern hemisphere, with a short, downcurved, hooked bill, grasping feet, a raucous voice, and often brightly coloured plumage, many being kept as cage birds and some being able to mimic speech and other sounds. Cf. parakeet n., parrotlet n.Most parrots belong to the family Psittacidae. Current schemes place the cockatoos in a separate family, Cacatuidae, while some place the lories in a third family, Loridae.grass-, ground-, king-, mulga, owl parrot, etc.: see the first element. sick as a parrot: see sick adj. 2c.

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the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Psittaciformes (parrots, etc.) > [noun] > parrot

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Poll1600

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feather-top1891

psittacine1949

a1529 J. Skelton Speke Parrot in Certayne Bks. (?1545) sig. A.ii My name is Parrot, a byrd of paradyse.

1564 W. Bullein Dialogue against Fever Pestilence f. 45 Our Parate will saie, Parate is a minion, and beware the Catte: and she wil call me Roger, as plaine as your Maistership.

1600 J. Pory tr. J. Leo Africanus Geogr. Hist. Afr. Introd. 52 Heere be likewise gray parots.

1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. T. Boccalini Ragguagli di Parnasso i. x. 20 Seeing a beautifull Indian Parret..seemed..delighted to hear her speak.

1733 J. Swift Thoughts on Var. Subj. in J. Swift et al. Misc. I. 306 A very little Wit is valued in a Woman, as we are pleas'd with a few Words spoken plain by a Parrot.

1782 W. Cowper Conversation in Poems 212 Words learn'd by rote, a parrot may rehearse.

1821 T. Nuttall Jrnl. Trav. Arkansa Territory 58 Flocks of screaming parrots were greedily feeding.

1885 J. S. Kingsley Standard Nat. Hist. (1888) IV. 363 The gray parrots, forming the family Psittacidæ, are few in number and are confined to Africa and Madagascar.

1930 W. M. Mann Wild Animals in & out of Zoo ii. 16 On one occasion three blue-headed parrots got away at the same time.

1980 M. Bail Homesickness ii. 75 North bent down to inspect the parrots: north African wax-bills, gray parrots, [etc.].

2002 Times 7 Mar. 11/7 There are now..more parrots living in the wild in Britain than there are survivors of..native species such as the bittern and corncrake.

b. A representation of a parrot, esp. one used as a target for shooting. Cf. popinjay n. 2.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > competitive shooting > archery > [noun] > archery target

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Turk1569

twelve (also twenty-four) score prick1569

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hoyle1614

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goal1662

1578 T. Nicholas tr. F. Lopez de Gómara Pleasant Hist. Conquest W. India 198 They will make a Parret or Popin Jay [Sp. vn papagayo] of mettall, that his tongue shall shake, and his heade move, and his wings flutter.

1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors 262 You passe through a place appointed for tilting..and in the midst, a high Pole for shooting at the wooden Parrat [Fr. pour tirer à l'oyseau].

1803 G. Colman John Bull iii. ii. 32 Here is two poets, and a poll-parrot, the best image the Jew had over his head, over the mantle-piece.

1884 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Huckleberry Finn xvii. 153 There was a big outlandish parrot on each side of the clock, made out of something like chalk, and painted up gaudy.

1925 Woman's World (Chicago) Apr. 35/3 The parrots are a design, not a picture, and as such may be walked on by the most fastidious.

1952 G. M. Mills First Ladies of Cape 33 The principal target of the practice was a clay bird called a parrot or papegaai.

2001 Hindu (Nexis) 8 June In Srivilliputtur, a parrot made of fresh green leaves is replaced on the left hand of Andal's idol every day.

c. The flesh of the parrot, as an article of food. Frequently attributive; cf. parrot pie n. at Compounds 1.

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1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple III. v. 63 (heading) Parrot soup in lieu of mock turtle.

1854 W. Howitt Boy's Adventures 34 We used to hear that parrot and damper was a favourite breakfast in this country.

1930 J. S. Litchfield Far-north Memories 107 Lunch: Parrot soup, prawn fritters, bread and butter pudding.

1956 S. Hope Diggers' Paradise 225 On one such occasion, not only was kangaroo tail and goanna on the meny, but also parrot and bacon stew.

2000 T. Robbins Fierce Invalids 112 He ran his tongue over his palate, tasting the bitter film left by parrot goulash and yopo vomit.

2. A person regarded as resembling a parrot in some way, esp. one who repeats the words or ideas of others mindlessly, mechanically, or without understanding.

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the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > [noun] > parrot-like imitation > one who

parrot1546

parakeet1598

parroter1623

1546 S. Gardiner Detection Deuils Sophistrie f. lxxxvi Iesters, railers, rimers, plaiers..& simpering parets, take vpon them to be administratours & officers.

1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius ii. 107 Speake out Parrotte, in what place doth Luther subuerte the dueties of vertue?

a1625 J. Fletcher Wild-goose Chase (1652) i. ii. 5 Our women the best Linguists, they are Parrats; O' this side the Alpes they are nothing but meer Drollaries.

1671 E. Howard Six Days Adventure i. 8 Soly: You may be Taken notice on for a Patriot of your countrey. Merid: A Parrot rather, for in my sence he talks by roat.

1777 G. Colman Epicoene ii. 237 If learned, there was never such a parrot.

1809 M. Edgeworth Ennui vi, in Tales Fashionable Life I. 156 The mere puppets and parrots of fashion.

1837 R. W. Emerson Oration before Phi Beta Kappa Soc. 5 He tends to become a mere thinker, or, still worse, the parrot of other men's thinking.

1957 H. Williamson Golden Virgin I. vii. 110 Anyone could see that in five minutes; the rest of the jargon, to be repeated until one was a parrot, was a waste of time.

1989 N.Y. Woman Nov. 23/1 I am not a ‘parrot’ of any man in my life's passion.

3. In full sea parrot. An auk; esp. the Atlantic puffin, Fratercula arctica. Cf. parrotbeak n. 2, parrotbill n. 2.

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the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Alcidae (auks) > [noun] > fratercula arctica (puffin)

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bottlenose1620

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tammie norie1701

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rock-bird1765

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Tomnoddy1771

Tommya1777

Tomnorry1793

Tommy1828

sea-owl1842

1664 R. Hubert Catal. Rarities (1665) 9 A Sea-Parret or Coppernose of Greenland.

1694 Narbrough's Acct. Several Late Voy. ii. 88 Amongst all web-footed Birds..this hath a peculiar Bill; and because it seem'd to those that gave him this Name to be like that of a Parret, therefore they called him also a Parret.

1790 Coll. Voy. round World VI. xviii. 2127 We saw numbers of sea parrots, and small ice-birds.

1885 C. Swainson Provinc. Names Brit. Birds 218 Black Guillemot... Also called: Puffixet (Farn Islands). Parrot (Roundstone, Co. Galway).

1906 Westm. Gaz. 19 May 4/2 The pinnacles and ledges of the precipitous cliffs are thronged with puffins—locally known as Lundy parrots.

1994 Denver Post 15 Dec. a29/1 But life hasn't always been easy for these quirky birds—sometimes called sea parrots—on the islands off the coast of Maine.

4. In full parrot tulip. Any of a group of cultivars of the garden tulip with deeply fringed and often wavy petals, typically of two colours.

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > lily and allied flowers > tulip

lily narcissus1578

tulip1578

Turk's cap1597

breeder1660

fool's coat1669

morilliona1678

edger1688

eger1706

chequered tulip1759

parrot tulip?1786

verport1798

Rembrandt1829

bybloemen1843

wild tulip1861

Darwin tulip1889

?1786 J. Abercrombie Gardeners Daily Assistant 77/2 White and rosy Parrot tulips.

1856 C. M. Yonge Daisy Chain ii. xxi. 586 She contended that she was nothing better than a parrot-tulip, stuck up in a parterre.

1891 O. Wilde Picture of Dorian Gray iv. 65 Some large blue china jars and parrot-tulips were ranged on the mantelshelf.

1911 J. Weathers Bulb Bk. 441/2 Parrot or Dragon Tulips. These curious-looking and remarkable Tulips are believed to be derived from T[ulipa] viridiflora.

1932 A. J. Macself Bulbs v. 58 The Cottage, Darwin, and Parrot tulips..require similar general treatment.

2000 You & your Wedding Mar. 211 Bouquet of ‘Angeline’ parrot tulips, anemones, pink tulips and pink carnations.

Phrases

Caribbean (chiefly Trinidad). to eat parrot head (also bottom) and variants: used to indicate that a person chatters incessantly or is excessively talkative. Also in shortened form to eat parrot . [Perhaps compare Italian mangiare il culo della gallina (literally, ‘to eat the bottom of a hen’), in the same sense, although this is unlikely to have been a model for the English expression:

1659 J. Howell Ital. Prov. 16 in Lex. Tetraglotton (1660) He is full of talk, it being the custome in Italy to give the greatest talker the rump of the hen. Ha mangiato del culo della gallina.

]

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the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > be talkative [verb (intransitive)] > talk excessively or chatter

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quiddlea1566

brabble1570

clicket1570

twattle1573

gabble1574

prittle1583

to like to hear oneself speak, talk1597

to word it1612

deblaterate1623

tongue1624

twitter1630

snatter1647

oversay1656

whiffle1706

to gallop away1711

splutter1728

gob1770

gibble-gabble1775

palaver1781

to talk (etc.) nineteen to the dozen1785

gammon1789

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yabble1808

yaff1808

mag1810

chelp1820

tongue-pad1825

yatter1825

potter1826

chipper1829

jaw-jaw1831

buzz1832

to shoot off one's mouth1864

yawp1872

blate1878

chin1884

yap1888

spiel1894

to talk (also lie, swear, etc.) a blue streak1895

to run off at the mouth1908

chattermag1909

clatfart1913

to talk a streak1915

to run one's mouth1916

natter1942

ear-bash1944

rabbit1950

yack1950

yacker1961

to eat parrot head (also bottom)1965

yacket1969

to twat on1996

1965 C. R. Ottley Trinidadianese 13 He wife eat parrot head.

1985 Telescope 4 34 But when I come back now the King is smiling.., and then he start-off to talk like he done eat parrot.

1997 P. Melville Ventriloquist's Tale (1998) 4 ‘He must have eaten parrot-bottom,’ they used to say wearily, when they heard my non-stop chatter.

2014 @_91tilinfinity 15 Apr. in twitter.com accessed 27 Nov. 2020 Dem ah gwan like dem nyam parrot batty fi breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

parrot cage n.

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1699 W. Dampier Voy. & Descr. ii. vi. 129 With Provision, Chests, Hencoops and Parrot-Cages, our Ships were full of Lumber.

1886 J. M. Morton Taken from French 140 A parrot cage under my arm all the way to the Sandwich Islands!

1985 J. Barnes Flaubert's Parrot (BNC) 58 Someone had the idea of placing at the foot of his tree an enormous parrot-cage.

parrot family n.

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1852 H. Murray Encycl. Geogr. V. 187 This continent [is] so well clothed with forests and fruit-bearing trees, upon which the whole of the Parrot family depend for food.

1930 W. M. Mann Wild Animals in & out of Zoo xx. 254 The only one of the parrot family really indigenous to America north of Mexico is the beautiful though noisy Carolina paroquet.

1999 Guardian 6 Aug. 11/1 More than one quarter of the parrot family—the psittaciformes—are threatened or in imminent danger of extinction.

† parrot-form n. Obsolete rare

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1885 A. Newton in Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 322/1 The home of the vast majority of Parrot-forms is..within the tropics.

† parrot island n. Obsolete rare

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1885 R. L. Stevenson Child's Garden of Verses 4 Where below another sky Parrot islands anchored lie.

parrot pie n.

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1839 S. Austral. Rec. (London) 13 Mar. 160 While you crowd round the fire and read this, we shall be eating the leg of a kangaroo or a parrot-pie in the open air.

2002 Time Out (Nexis) 29 May 49 Here you'll find recipes for parrot pie, roast wallaby and jugged pukaki.

parrot species n.

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1845 Bell's Life in Sydney 18 Jan. 3/4 A most extraordinary bird of the parrot species, commonly called the green leek, a native of New South Wales.

1949 H. W. C. Vines Green's Man. Pathol. (ed. 17) x. 270 Psittacosis.—This is a virus infection of birds of the parrot species.

1990 Nature Conservancy Sept. 35/3 Travel by small boats through Crooked Tree Wildlife Sanctuary to see pygmy kingfishers, boat-billed herons, and several parrot species.

parrot tribe n. now rare

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1772 Gentleman's Mag. Nov. 505/1 The food of these birds [sc. Piscivorous Toucan] being fruit, like the parrot-tribe.

1793 J. Hunter Hist. Jrnl. Trans. Port Jackson ii. 58 Birds..of the parrot tribe..are clothed with the most beautiful plumage that can be conceived.

1874 W. B. Carpenter Princ. Mental Physiol. (1879) i. ii. §83 89 Birds of the Parrot tribe are pre-eminent for their educability.

1948 F. Pitt Birds in Brit. xxii. 272 This bird comes from Australia, a great home of the parrot tribe.

C2. In the sense ‘of, characteristic of, resembling, or reminiscent of a parrot’, esp. with reference to the mindless and mechanical repetition of words or phrases in the manner of a parrot.

parrot cry n.

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the mind > language > speech > repetition > [noun] > something repeated

overword?a1513

sanctus1594

reassumption1611

dixit1628

overcome?a1800

parrot cry1814

stereotype1850

repetend1874

parrot-echo1892

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > unintelligible language, gibberish > [noun] > meaningless repetition > instance of

parrot cry1814

1814 S. T. Coleridge in Courier 4 Jan. 2/1 This parrot cry, this habit of faction.

1924 Times 7 Aug. 12/4 The Conservative Party would be at a disadvantage in that they would be fighting against a parrot cry demanding the abolition of the House of Lords.

2002 Japan Times (Nexis) 7 Mar. Even now, the parrot cry for ‘more aid’ echoes around international gatherings as the ‘answer’ to African misery and misrule.

parrot-echo n.

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the mind > language > speech > repetition > [noun] > something repeated

overword?a1513

sanctus1594

reassumption1611

dixit1628

overcome?a1800

parrot cry1814

stereotype1850

repetend1874

parrot-echo1892

1892 J. Tait Mind in Matter (ed. 2) 238 False miracles or parrot-echoes of real ones.

1986 Jrnl. Rom. Stud. 76 281 Myres could give the parrot-echo of Herodotus because at the time of writing too little had been produced to controvert it.

parrot-faculty n.

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the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > [noun] > parrot-like imitation > condition or faculty of being

parrot-faculty1846

parrothood1894

1846 Blackwood's Mag. Apr. 466/2 This bird's chief faculty was singing, seldom a parrot faculty, but its ear was so perfect, that it acquired tunes with great rapidity.

1867 J. S. Blackie in Trans. Royal Soc. Edinb. 24 4 The delighted parent, by the exercise of the parrot faculty, immediately forms a name for his son.

1919 E. B. Miles Our Southern Birds 29 Whether Crows have the parrot faculty of imitating sounds of speech or not, it is certain that they have a greater range of signals and communication-sounds of their own than other birds

† parrot fury n. Obsolete

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1607 Merrie Iests George Peele 32 At which she biting her lip, in a parat furie went downe the stayres.

parrot-lawyer n.

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1616 T. Adams Sacrifice of Thankefulnesse 76 Their Bandogs, corrupt Soliciters, Parrat-Lawyers; that are their properties, and meere Trunkes.

2000 Press Jrnl. (Vero Beach, Florida) (Nexis) 16 Dec. a10 These flames were fanned not by strong winds but rather by a flock of parrot-lawyers that came down from DNC headquarters and vocally fanned the flames.

parrot learning n.

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1854 J. Laurie Parent's Guide 135 It is too often just as common to confine a mere infant all day over its parrot learning, as it is to require the same application of a child of far more advanced development.

2003 South China Morning Post (Hong Kong) (Nexis) 15 Feb. 6 If more people switched to English channels they would find themselves in the best environment to enhance their skills and interest in the language beyond mere parrot learning.

parrot phrase n.

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1851 Fraser's Mag. Sept. 306/1 He urged my merits; she replied that (no one spoke the sentence, but I knew the parrot-phrase too well!) I was so common-place.

1958 People 4 May 4/2 I can get no comment except the parrot-phrase: ‘The Home Secretary is still considering this case.’

2002 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 8 June 46 The inhabitants at Ambergris have agreed not to use the corporate parrot phrase of going forward, but well, it's time to be moving onward.

† parrot prate n. Obsolete

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the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > [noun] > parrot-like imitation

parrot-prating1582

parrotism1613

parrotry1796

parrot prate1804

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > unintelligible language, gibberish > [noun] > meaningless repetition > production of

parrot-prating1582

parakeetism1658

parrot prate1804

rhubarbing1953

1804 J. Wolcot Epist. to Ld. Mayor in Wks. (1812) V. 206 Despise his mind and parrot-prate.

1874 J. Arnould Life Thomas, First Ld. Denman II. xxxiii. 183 It made him mad to hear the parrot prate with which these sciolists of political economy retailed the arguments of the abler and astuter wire-pullers.

† parrot-prating n. Obsolete

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the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > [noun] > parrot-like imitation

parrot-prating1582

parrotism1613

parrotry1796

parrot prate1804

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > unintelligible language, gibberish > [noun] > meaningless repetition > production of

parrot-prating1582

parakeetism1658

parrot prate1804

rhubarbing1953

1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis i. 8 His prittye parat prating.

1854 Harper's Mag. Oct. 710/1 She does not, however,..indulge in parrot-pratings, repeating the stale echoes of previous travelers.

† parrot teaching n. Obsolete

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1887 C. A. Moloney Sketch Forestry W. Afr. 255 Too much time devoted in the past to the exercise of memory, to ‘parrot’ teaching.

1895 Overland Monthly Oct. 405/2 It may be said that what is called ‘parrot teaching’ is unknown in the schools of Hawaii.

parrot voice n.

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1892 Cent. Mag. Sept. 705/1 You might hear their parrot voices screaming the length of the street.

1992 E. González Monstered Self iv. 180 Poor Patiño's parrot voice drowns in the ink of baroque lampooning, like a talking raven crushed by an oracular writing desk.

parrot way n.

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1828 Lights & Shades Eng. Life I. 318 Their notions are in all cases alike infused in the true parrot way.

1994 NPR: Morning Edition (transcript of radio programme) (Nexis) 24 Jan. I think if papers think that they're gonna save themselves by becoming a different form of medium, that's a kind of parrot way to survive.

parrot-work n.

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1806 Edinb. Rev. 7 468 Avoiding..what he calls parrot-work.

1877 T. H. Huxley in Nature 19 July 234/1 The mere catechismal parrot-work which too often usurps the place of elementary teaching.

1965 N. B. Emerson Unwritten Lit. of Hawaii xi. 98 She replied that her part was only that of a mouthpiece to repeat the words and to make appropriate gestures..mere parrot-work.

C3. Similative.

parrot-beaked adj.

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1907 R. M. Laing & E. W. Blackwell Plants N.Z. (ed. 2) 210 Clianthus puniceus (The Scarlet Clianthus)... Native name Kowhai-ngutu-kaka, signifying the Parrot-beaked kowhai.

1978 Nature 17 Aug. 663/1 More groups of big ornithischians were added to the fauna..: parrot-beaked psittacosaurs, protoceratopsids, [etc.].

2001 Oxoniensia 65 412 Two pits..produced..a 14th-century baluster jug and a parrot-beaked spout jug.

parrot-billed adj.

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1836 W. Dunlap Thirty Years Ago vii. 065 His head was large, his visage long, his nose thin, high and hooked (sometimes called Roman and sometimes parrot-billed).

1887 A. C. Smith Birds Wilts. 517 Razor-bill (Alca torda)... Provincially it is called ‘Parrot-billed Willcock’, or ‘Willy’.

1993 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 26 June 8 The tool used is a pair of loppers with parrot-billed jaws.

parrot-bright adj.

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1920 E. Sitwell Wooden Pegasus 24 From her fan, sliding slow, Parrot-bright fire's feathers.

2001 Daily Record (Glasgow) (Nexis) 20 Oct. 36 The winter stems are parrot-bright, a truly heart-warming sight on a grey day.

parrot-learnt adj.

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1848 Biblical Repository July 393 The one is a drowsy, formal hearing of a parrot-learned lesson, or the periodical, heartless delivery of some stereotype wisdom.

2001 Times (Nexis) 24 Apr. He's not interested in directing English singers mouthing parrot-learnt Czech to an English audience.

parrot-looking adj.

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a1854 E. Grant Mem. Highland Lady (1988) II. xxix. 294 Parrot looking birds were among the branches.

1995 Charleston (W. Va.) Gaz. (Nexis) 6 Nov. 1 b Woman went into a pet store where she saw this huge, parrot-looking, green bird.

parrot-nosed adj.

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1845 C. M. Krikland Western Clearings 072 Mr. Keene is low of stature, rather globular in contour, and exceedingly parrot-nosed.

1999 Racing Post (Nexis) 23 Sept. 55 ‘The parrot-nosed bitch’, born in England around 1830.

parrot-plumed adj.

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1923 E. Sitwell Bucolic Comedies 25 Who came from the parrot-plumed sea.

1997 Gazette (Montreal) (Nexis) 27 Jan. a2 Parrot-plumed jackets and macaw-feather appliques.

parrot-sharp adj.

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1936 E. Sitwell Victoria of Eng. ii. 33 Her dark parrot-sharp face.

C4. Objective.

parrot shooting n.

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1865 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend II. iii. vii. 63 You could hardly have been out parrot-shooting, in the British climate.

1995 New Statesman & Society (Nexis) 21 July 35 Askey seems to be the outback's first signed-up Green, tut-tutting at Uncle Jack's (Vanya's) parrot shooting.

C5.

† parrot and monkey time n. U.S. colloquial (Obsolete) an argumentative time, a period of quarrelling or fighting.

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1876 G. A. Custer Let. 20 May in E. Custer Boots & Saddles (1885) 266 We are having the ‘parrot's time’ with the expedition.]

1882 Brooklyn Daily Eagle 19 Mar. 1 O they have been having a regular parrot and monkey time of it down at Quitman.

1891 T. Roosevelt Let. 15 June (1951) I. 251 It does seem to me, however, as though some of the elect on the other side have been having a parrot and monkey time too, for which praised be a merciful Providence.

1920 Hunter, Trader, Trapper Nov. 49/1 For a time the ingenuity and courage of the men and dogs were put against those of the big cat and then and there was enacted a truly ‘Parrot and Monkey time’.

† parrot-bullfinch n. Obsolete rare a parrotbill of the genus Paradoxornis.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.

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1890 Cent. Dict. Parrot-bullfinch, any Asiatic bird of the genus Paradoxornis: so called from the character of the bill.

parrot crossbill n. a large crossbill of northern Eurasia, Loxia pytyopsittacus, with a very stout bill.

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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > family Fringillidae (finch) > [noun] > subfamily Carduelinae > genus Loxia (crossbill)

sheld-apple1666

crossbilla1672

cross-beak1688

loxia1706

parrot crossbill1825

1825 P. J. Selby Illustr. Brit. Ornithol.: Pt. 1st 254 Parrot-Crossbill.

1894 R. B. Sharpe Handbk. Birds Great Brit. (1896) 58 The so-called ‘Parrot’ Crossbill..is an inhabitant chiefly of Northern Europe, whence it ranges occasionally into the British Islands.

1991 Bird Watching June 53/5 Two parrot crossbills were at Clocaenog.

parrot disease n. = psittacosis n.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorder of respiratory organs > [noun] > disorders of lungs > caused by fungus or parasite

pneumotyphus1846

pneumonomycosis1875

pneumomycosis1890

psittacosis1896

aspergillosis1898

histoplasmosis1907

nocardiosis1907

parrot disease1908

torulosis1929

coccidioidomycosis1937

valley fever1938

ornithosis1939

farmer's lung1944

parrot fever1947

San Joaquin Valley fever1958

1908 Spratt's Parrot Culture 29 Should a room have become infected with the parrot disease..it will be needful to have it fumigated with sulphur.

1955 Times 8 June 6/4 A case of psittacosis (parrot disease) has occurred in the aircraft-carrier Centaur, which berthed here to-day on her return from the Mediterranean.

parrot fever n. = psittacosis n.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorder of respiratory organs > [noun] > disorders of lungs > caused by fungus or parasite

pneumotyphus1846

pneumonomycosis1875

pneumomycosis1890

psittacosis1896

aspergillosis1898

histoplasmosis1907

nocardiosis1907

parrot disease1908

torulosis1929

coccidioidomycosis1937

valley fever1938

ornithosis1939

farmer's lung1944

parrot fever1947

San Joaquin Valley fever1958

1947 Life 17 Nov. 157/2 (caption) Germ hosts for lab-cultivated diseases include..chick embryos (mumps, typhus and parrot fever).

1995 Daily Tel. 1 Aug. 14/5 In severe cases, parrot or pigeon fever can be fatal.

parrot-finch n. †(a) a crossbill of the genus Loxia (obsolete rare); (b) any waxbill of the genus Erythrura, typically with green upperparts, native to South-East Asia and Australasia.Sense (a) is apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.

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1829 E. Griffith et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom VII. 140 Parrot finch.

1896 List Vertebrated Animals Gardens Zool. Soc. (ed. 9) 252 Erythrura psittacea (Gm.). Parrot-Finch. Hab. New Caledonia.

1958 E. T. Gilliard Living Birds of World 383/1 An example is the Green-faced Parrot-finch (Erythrura viridifacies), a four-inch grass-green finch with a sharp crimson tail.

1993 Cage & Aviary Birds 13 Nov. 18/6 The birds seized included Mynahs, Avadavats, Pekin Robins, Parrot Finches, Dollar Birds, [etc.].

parrot green n. and adj. (a) n. a yellowish green resembling the colouring of some parrots; (b) adj. of this colour.

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the world > matter > colour > named colours > green or greenness > [noun] > shade or tint of green > yellowish green

popinjayc1484

parrot green1646

gosling-green1756

siskin green1757

Pomona green1788

chrysoprase1835

Georgian green1918

honeydew1920

Pomona1969

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iii. xiii. 138 The little Frogge of an excellent Parrat-green, that usually sits on trees and bushes.

1727 E. Chambers Cycl. at Green The Dyers make divers Shades, or Casts of Green, as..Sea-Green, Dark-Green, Parrot-Green, and Celadon-Green.

1858 ‘G. Eliot’ Janet's Repentance ii, in Scenes Clerical Life II. 63 Long, drooping ostrich feathers of parrot green.

1955 E. Bowen World of Love ii. 39 Her parrot-green satin shirt.

2003 India Business Insight (Nexis) 5 June The tiles are available in several colours ranging from parrot green to chilli red.

parrot mouth n. Veterinary Medicine a malformation of the mouth, esp. in horses, in which the mandible is abnormally short and the upper incisors project beyond the lower.

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1869 R. F. Burton Explor. Highlands Brazil I. viii. 97 All [the horses] were in good condition..there are no ‘parrot mouths’.

1968 Observer's Bk. Horses & Ponies (rev. ed.) Gloss. 262 Undershot mouth, one which is deformed by having the lower jaw protruding beyond the upper with results similar to those caused by parrot mouth.

2002 Bangor (Maine) Daily News (Nexis) 2 Aug. 5 Ewe lambs must be free of parrot mouth, foot rot and scrapie.

parrot-perch n. †(a) Australian. Obsolete. rare = parrotfish n.; (b) [after Brazilian Portuguese pau de arara] (also parrot's perch) a horizontal bar used as an instrument of torture, the victim being suspended upside down with his or her legs bent over the bar; (also) this method of torture.Sense (a) is apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.

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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > suborder Percoidei > [noun] > member of family Scaridae (parrot-fish)

Scarus1601

parrotfish1656

sea-parrot1666

scare1706

scaroa1717

scar1748

parrot wrasse1884

parrot-perch1898

1898 E. E. Morris Austral Eng. 342/1 Parrot-fish, name given in Australia to Pseudoscarus pseudolabrus; called in the Australian tropics Parrot-perch.

1974 C. Hampton Savages (1976) xii. 66 They..gave her all the usual treatment, more rape, electric shock, hanging her upside-down on the parrot perch and beating her.

1991 Soldier of Fortune Dec. 41/3 Victim is strapped on wooden bar and beaten in pau de arara, parrot's perch, a method of torture in Chile.

2003 Toronto Star (Nexis) 9 May a1 There's no ‘parrot perch’, or hanging metal bar that is a staple of most Brazilian prisons.

† parrot's corn n. Obsolete rare the seeds of safflower, Carthamus tinctorius.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > plants used in dyeing > [noun] > saffron-thistle > seeds

parrot's corn1857

1857 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) Parrot's Corn, common name for the seeds of the Carthamus tinctorius, or bastard saffron.

parrot's feather n. (also parrot feather, parrotfeather) a water milfoil, Myriophyllum aquaticum, with whorls of green feather-like foliage, native to South America and now grown and naturalized widely elsewhere.

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1892 Garden & Forest 5 44/2 Azolla Caroliniana (Floating Moss) is an interesting plant, and so is the Water Hyacinth and the Parrot's Feather (Myriophyllum).

1936 W. B. McDougall & H. A. Baggley Plants of Yellowstone National Park 94 Myriophyllum... The genus is often known as parrotfeather.

1954 R. E. Coker Streams, Lakes, & Ponds xiv. 270 A plant often favored for aquaria is the parrot's feather, one of the water milfoils (Myriophyllum).

2001 Org. Gardening July 25/1 Parrot feather (Myriophyllum aquaticum) is best suited to Zone 8 and colder water gardens.

parrot snake n. any of several slender, green, South American tree snakes of the colubrid genus Leptophis, esp. L. ahaetulla.

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the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > [noun] > unspecified and miscellaneous types of

worm-kinc893

slow-wormOE

hagworm?c1475

salpege1569

scytale1572

house snake1608

porphyre1608

ellops1667

sea-serpent1672

tree-serpent1731

boyuna1763

whip-snake1774

garter-snake1775

switch-snake1791

argus-snake1802

rat snake1818

skaapsteker1818

sea-snake1827

short-tail1879

roof-snake1884

brown snake1896

herald-snake1910

night snake1918

parrot snake1931

1931 R. L. Ditmars Snakes of World Pl. 19 (caption) Green Tree Snake; Chocoya or Parrot Snake, Leptophis occidentalis. Found from Guatemala to northern South America.

1958 J. Carew Wild Coast ii. 28 A green parrot-snake slithered down a coconut tree.

1995 C. Mattison Encycl. Snakes vi. 128/1 (caption) The South American parrot snake, Leptophis ahaetulla, has a stereotyped defensive behaviour.

parrots' plague n. (also parrot plague) rare = psittacosis n.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of birds > [noun] > disorders of parrots

parrots' plague1895

parrots' rinderpest1895

1895 Daily News 19 Dec. 5/4 Spoken of as the parrots' plague..called by Laics parrots' rinderpest... One of the persons who died..at Versailles of the distemper was an officer's wife.

1930 Aberdeen Press & Jrnl. 10 Jan. 5 Recently three persons were reported to have died from ‘parrot plague’ at Berlin and two at Prague. The disease is rare and is known to medical science as psittacosis.

2000 Herald Sun (Melbourne) (Nexis) 10 Oct. 9 Parrot plague. A Tasmanian man has died and two others are ill from parrot fever.

† parrots' rinderpest n. Obsolete rare = psittacosis n.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of birds > [noun] > disorders of parrots

parrots' plague1895

parrots' rinderpest1895

1895 Daily News 19 Dec. 5/4 Spoken of as the parrots' plague..called by Laics parrots' rinderpest... One of the persons who died..at Versailles of the distemper was an officer's wife.

parrot teacher n. †(a) a person who repeats empty or meaningless phrases (obsolete); (b) a person who trains parrots to speak.

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1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing i. i. 132 You are a rare parrat teacher .

2002 Independent (Nexis) 31 Aug. 10 Although in ancient Rome it was often the responsibility of the household slave to teach the parrot to talk, professional parrot teachers offered a service too.

parrot-toed adj. and adv. (a) adj. pigeon-toed; (b) adv. in a pigeon-toed manner.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > deformity > deformities of specific parts > [adjective] > of foot

hurleda1500

splay-footed1545

polt-foot?1589

polt-footed1589

club-footed1591

stump-foot1593

flat-footed1601

stump-footed1602

feetless1614

splay-foot1622

splatter-footeda1644

shauchled1737

hurl-footed1752

parrot-toed1764

splaw1767

pigeon-toed1786

bumble-footed1823

in-toed1835

chicken-toed1859

infooted1899

1764 J. Adams Let. 7 May in L. H. Butterfield et al. Adams Family Corr. (1963) I. 45 A sixth Imperfection is that of Walking, with the Toes bending inward. This Imperfection is commonly called Parrot-toed.

1849 W. F. Lynch Exped. Jordan v. 91 Most of the Turks walk what is termed parrot-toed, very much like our Indians.

1896 Harper's Mag. May 867/1 They wagered that she was knock-kneed, parrot-toed, tongue-tied, silly, consumptive, cross, jealous.

1996 R. Allsopp Dict. Caribbean Eng. Usage 430/2 Parrot-toed, having the toes turned inward.

parrot tongue n. a tongue like that of a parrot; spec. (a) the tongue of a person who repeats words or phrases parrot-fashion; the tongue of a person who talks a lot or who is a good mimic; †(b) Medicine a dry shrivelled condition of the human tongue occurring in typhus and other fevers (obsolete rare).

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the mind > language > speech > repetition > [noun] > rapid or mechanical repetition > one who recites mechanically

patterera1522

parroter1623

roter1624

parrot tongue1773

psittacist1923

the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > [noun] > parrot-like imitation > one who > tongue of

parrot tongue1773

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of mouth > [noun] > disorders of tongue

froga1398

ranula?a1425

tongue-evil1662

agrom1753

frog-tongue1822

glossocele1823

black tongue1833

glossitis1834

glossoplegia1854

strawberry tongue1874

smoker's patch1888

parrot tongue1897

1773 J. Robertson Poems (rev. ed.) 276 Mellifluous Sounds, devoid of all Offence, Join'd to a strange Vacuity of Sense, Which from Tautology's dull Parrot Tongue From Morn to Night are either said or sung.

1860 C. Reade Cloister & Hearth (1896) lviii. 179 If you would but..hold your parrot tongues.

1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. II. 357 Dry, brown-crusted, shrivelled tongue—‘the parrot-tongue’ of typhus.

1990 Associated Press Newswire (Nexis) 9 Mar. Whenever I'm working and doing another accent, I avoid calling my family. It's hard to switch it on and off. You have to be afflicted with a parrot tongue.

parrot tulip n. see sense 4.

parrot weed n. Caribbean (now rare) the tree celandine, Bocconia frutescens.

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1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica 245 Bocconia... Parrot-weed.

1801 T. Dancer Med. Assistant 368 Juice of the Wild Celandine, or Parrot Weed.

1914 W. Fawcett & A. B. Rendle Flora Jamaica 223 John Crow Bush, Parrot Weed, celandine.

1999 L. Coverdale tr. P. Chamoiseau Chron. Seven Sorrows 130 He alleviated their chronic bronchitis with infusions of parrot weed,..and a syrup of carpenter's herb.

parrot wrasse n. = parrotfish n. a, b.

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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > suborder Percoidei > [noun] > member of family Scaridae (parrot-fish)

Scarus1601

parrotfish1656

sea-parrot1666

scare1706

scaroa1717

scar1748

parrot wrasse1884

parrot-perch1898

1884 Longman's Mag. Mar. 529 Certain tropical species of herrings and parrot-wrasses.

1931 E. G. Boulenger Fishes xvi. 125 The gaily painted Parrot Wrasses (Scaridæ) of tropical and semi-tropical seas, have lips hardened to form a parrot-like beak.

1992 Pract. Fishkeeping Aug. 81 A beautiful Cirrhilabrus from Fiji which is yet to be named, but had been dubbed the ‘Shimmering Parrot Wrasse’.

Derivatives

parroˈtese n. the language of parrots.

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the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > unintelligible language, gibberish > [noun] > meaningless repetition

lip-labour?1548

lip-labouring1549

hibber-gibber1593

lip-work1631

echolalia1885

parrotese1889

rhubarb1919

1889 F. M. Müller Nat. Relig. xiv. 361 The parrot never speaks parrotese.

2001 New Straits Times (Malaysia) (Nexis) 28 July 11 What, if there is any, is the language of parrots? Malay? German? Or ‘Parrotese’?

ˈparrothood n. the state or condition of being a parrot.

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the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > [noun] > parrot-like imitation > condition or faculty of being

parrot-faculty1846

parrothood1894

1894 N.Y. Daily Tribune 5 July 12/1 From early parrothood the lost one displayed a keen sense of the conventionalities of polite speech.

1990 People (Nexis) 10 Dec. 126 Max's predecessor in parrothood, Alvin, lived with Elizabeth for 10 years before he died this fall.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	parrot
释义	parrotn.¹ Brit. /ˈparət/, U.S. /ˈpɛrət/ Forms: 1500s parate, 1500s paret, 1500s parott, 1500s parotte, 1500s parrote, 1500s parrotte, 1500s–1600s parat, 1500s–1600s parot, 1500s–1700s parrat, 1500s–1700s parret, 1500s– parrot. Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps a borrowing from French. Etymons: French Perrot, Pierrot. Etymology: Origin uncertain. Perhaps < French Perrot, variant of Pierrot, diminutive of the male forename Pierre (compare Pierrot n.). Compare French pierrot house sparrow (1694), Occitan parrat small bird, sparrow (1649), Occitan (Gascon) parròt tit, perròt turkey (also ‘simpleton’). (The sense ‘parrot’ is not recorded for French Perrot before 1752 and then is probably a shortening of perroquet parakeet n. rather than an application of the forename.)The male forename Perrot is not recorded in 16th-cent. English as such, but it may be recorded earlier as a surname William le Perot (1277) and in a farm name: Parott (Surrey 1489). The surname Parrat is recorded in the 16th cent. For the application of human personal names to parrots, compare also parakeet n. (with a related derivation), and Poll n.³, Polly n.¹ In quot. a1529 at sense 1a, Parrot may be partly (perhaps punningly) understood as the bird's personal name; compare this from the same text:a1529 J. Skelton Speke Parrot in Certayne Bks. (?1545) sig. A.ii Speke parrot I pray you, full curtesly they say Parrot is a goodly byrd, a prety Popagey. An alternative suggestion derives the word from Spanish pajarote large bird (1576–7) < pájaro bird ( < classical Latin passer sparrow (see Passeres n.)) + -ote, augmentative suffix. The Spanish word, however, is only attested later than English parrot and the suggested derivation presents formal as well as semantic difficulties. 1. a. Any of numerous fruit- and seed-eating birds of the order Psittaciformes of the tropics and southern hemisphere, with a short, downcurved, hooked bill, grasping feet, a raucous voice, and often brightly coloured plumage, many being kept as cage birds and some being able to mimic speech and other sounds. Cf. parakeet n., parrotlet n.Most parrots belong to the family Psittacidae. Current schemes place the cockatoos in a separate family, Cacatuidae, while some place the lories in a third family, Loridae.grass-, ground-, king-, mulga, owl parrot, etc.: see the first element. sick as a parrot: see sick adj. 2c. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Psittaciformes (parrots, etc.) > [noun] > parrot popinjaya1387 psittac?a1425 parrota1529 Poll1600 coxcomb bird1734 poll-parrot1768 Polly1826 anthropoglot1828 feather-top1891 psittacine1949 a1529 J. Skelton Speke Parrot in Certayne Bks. (?1545) sig. A.ii My name is Parrot, a byrd of paradyse. 1564 W. Bullein Dialogue against Fever Pestilence f. 45 Our Parate will saie, Parate is a minion, and beware the Catte: and she wil call me Roger, as plaine as your Maistership. 1600 J. Pory tr. J. Leo Africanus Geogr. Hist. Afr. Introd. 52 Heere be likewise gray parots. 1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. T. Boccalini Ragguagli di Parnasso i. x. 20 Seeing a beautifull Indian Parret..seemed..delighted to hear her speak. 1733 J. Swift Thoughts on Var. Subj. in J. Swift et al. Misc. I. 306 A very little Wit is valued in a Woman, as we are pleas'd with a few Words spoken plain by a Parrot. 1782 W. Cowper Conversation in Poems 212 Words learn'd by rote, a parrot may rehearse. 1821 T. Nuttall Jrnl. Trav. Arkansa Territory 58 Flocks of screaming parrots were greedily feeding. 1885 J. S. Kingsley Standard Nat. Hist. (1888) IV. 363 The gray parrots, forming the family Psittacidæ, are few in number and are confined to Africa and Madagascar. 1930 W. M. Mann Wild Animals in & out of Zoo ii. 16 On one occasion three blue-headed parrots got away at the same time. 1980 M. Bail Homesickness ii. 75 North bent down to inspect the parrots: north African wax-bills, gray parrots, [etc.]. 2002 Times 7 Mar. 11/7 There are now..more parrots living in the wild in Britain than there are survivors of..native species such as the bittern and corncrake. b. A representation of a parrot, esp. one used as a target for shooting. Cf. popinjay n. 2. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > competitive shooting > archery > [noun] > archery target bercelc1440 butt1440 shell1497 rover1511 standing pricka1525 round1531 popinjay1548 prick-mark1553 Turk1569 twelve (also twenty-four) score prick1569 garden butt1572 parrot1578 clout1584 hoyle1614 shaw-fowl1621 prick wanda1650 goal1662 1578 T. Nicholas tr. F. Lopez de Gómara Pleasant Hist. Conquest W. India 198 They will make a Parret or Popin Jay [Sp. vn papagayo] of mettall, that his tongue shall shake, and his heade move, and his wings flutter. 1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors 262 You passe through a place appointed for tilting..and in the midst, a high Pole for shooting at the wooden Parrat [Fr. pour tirer à l'oyseau]. 1803 G. Colman John Bull iii. ii. 32 Here is two poets, and a poll-parrot, the best image the Jew had over his head, over the mantle-piece. 1884 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Huckleberry Finn xvii. 153 There was a big outlandish parrot on each side of the clock, made out of something like chalk, and painted up gaudy. 1925 Woman's World (Chicago) Apr. 35/3 The parrots are a design, not a picture, and as such may be walked on by the most fastidious. 1952 G. M. Mills First Ladies of Cape 33 The principal target of the practice was a clay bird called a parrot or papegaai. 2001 Hindu (Nexis) 8 June In Srivilliputtur, a parrot made of fresh green leaves is replaced on the left hand of Andal's idol every day. c. The flesh of the parrot, as an article of food. Frequently attributive; cf. parrot pie n. at Compounds 1. ΚΠ 1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple III. v. 63 (heading) Parrot soup in lieu of mock turtle. 1854 W. Howitt Boy's Adventures 34 We used to hear that parrot and damper was a favourite breakfast in this country. 1930 J. S. Litchfield Far-north Memories 107 Lunch: Parrot soup, prawn fritters, bread and butter pudding. 1956 S. Hope Diggers' Paradise 225 On one such occasion, not only was kangaroo tail and goanna on the meny, but also parrot and bacon stew. 2000 T. Robbins Fierce Invalids 112 He ran his tongue over his palate, tasting the bitter film left by parrot goulash and yopo vomit. 2. A person regarded as resembling a parrot in some way, esp. one who repeats the words or ideas of others mindlessly, mechanically, or without understanding. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > [noun] > parrot-like imitation > one who parrot1546 parakeet1598 parroter1623 1546 S. Gardiner Detection Deuils Sophistrie f. lxxxvi Iesters, railers, rimers, plaiers..& simpering parets, take vpon them to be administratours & officers. 1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius ii. 107 Speake out Parrotte, in what place doth Luther subuerte the dueties of vertue? a1625 J. Fletcher Wild-goose Chase (1652) i. ii. 5 Our women the best Linguists, they are Parrats; O' this side the Alpes they are nothing but meer Drollaries. 1671 E. Howard Six Days Adventure i. 8 Soly: You may be Taken notice on for a Patriot of your countrey. Merid: A Parrot rather, for in my sence he talks by roat. 1777 G. Colman Epicoene ii. 237 If learned, there was never such a parrot. 1809 M. Edgeworth Ennui vi, in Tales Fashionable Life I. 156 The mere puppets and parrots of fashion. 1837 R. W. Emerson Oration before Phi Beta Kappa Soc. 5 He tends to become a mere thinker, or, still worse, the parrot of other men's thinking. 1957 H. Williamson Golden Virgin I. vii. 110 Anyone could see that in five minutes; the rest of the jargon, to be repeated until one was a parrot, was a waste of time. 1989 N.Y. Woman Nov. 23/1 I am not a ‘parrot’ of any man in my life's passion. 3. In full sea parrot. An auk; esp. the Atlantic puffin, Fratercula arctica. Cf. parrotbeak n. 2, parrotbill n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Alcidae (auks) > [noun] > fratercula arctica (puffin) scout1596 willock1606 bottlenose1620 parrot1664 sea-parrot1664 guldenhead1676 coulterneb1678 mullet1678 puffin1678 cockandy1684 sea-coulter1684 bowger1698 norie1701 tammie norie1701 popea1705 lunda1744 rock-bird1765 puffin-auk1768 tommy noddy1769 Tomnoddy1771 Tommya1777 Tomnorry1793 Tommy1828 sea-owl1842 1664 R. Hubert Catal. Rarities (1665) 9 A Sea-Parret or Coppernose of Greenland. 1694 Narbrough's Acct. Several Late Voy. ii. 88 Amongst all web-footed Birds..this hath a peculiar Bill; and because it seem'd to those that gave him this Name to be like that of a Parret, therefore they called him also a Parret. 1790 Coll. Voy. round World VI. xviii. 2127 We saw numbers of sea parrots, and small ice-birds. 1885 C. Swainson Provinc. Names Brit. Birds 218 Black Guillemot... Also called: Puffixet (Farn Islands). Parrot (Roundstone, Co. Galway). 1906 Westm. Gaz. 19 May 4/2 The pinnacles and ledges of the precipitous cliffs are thronged with puffins—locally known as Lundy parrots. 1994 Denver Post 15 Dec. a29/1 But life hasn't always been easy for these quirky birds—sometimes called sea parrots—on the islands off the coast of Maine. 4. In full parrot tulip. Any of a group of cultivars of the garden tulip with deeply fringed and often wavy petals, typically of two colours. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > lily and allied flowers > tulip lily narcissus1578 tulip1578 Turk's cap1597 breeder1660 fool's coat1669 morilliona1678 edger1688 eger1706 chequered tulip1759 parrot tulip?1786 verport1798 Rembrandt1829 bybloemen1843 wild tulip1861 Darwin tulip1889 ?1786 J. Abercrombie Gardeners Daily Assistant 77/2 White and rosy Parrot tulips. 1856 C. M. Yonge Daisy Chain ii. xxi. 586 She contended that she was nothing better than a parrot-tulip, stuck up in a parterre. 1891 O. Wilde Picture of Dorian Gray iv. 65 Some large blue china jars and parrot-tulips were ranged on the mantelshelf. 1911 J. Weathers Bulb Bk. 441/2 Parrot or Dragon Tulips. These curious-looking and remarkable Tulips are believed to be derived from T[ulipa] viridiflora. 1932 A. J. Macself Bulbs v. 58 The Cottage, Darwin, and Parrot tulips..require similar general treatment. 2000 You & your Wedding Mar. 211 Bouquet of ‘Angeline’ parrot tulips, anemones, pink tulips and pink carnations. Phrases Caribbean (chiefly Trinidad). to eat parrot head (also bottom) and variants: used to indicate that a person chatters incessantly or is excessively talkative. Also in shortened form to eat parrot . [Perhaps compare Italian mangiare il culo della gallina (literally, ‘to eat the bottom of a hen’), in the same sense, although this is unlikely to have been a model for the English expression: 1659 J. Howell Ital. Prov. 16 in Lex. Tetraglotton (1660) He is full of talk, it being the custome in Italy to give the greatest talker the rump of the hen. Ha mangiato del culo della gallina. ] ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > be talkative [verb (intransitive)] > talk excessively or chatter chavel?c1225 babblea1250 chattera1250 clacka1250 janglea1300 ganglec1300 clapc1315 mumblec1350 blabberc1375 carp1377 tatterc1380 garre1382 rattlec1400 clatter1401 chimec1405 gabc1405 pattera1450 smattera1450 languetc1450 pratec1460 chat1483 jabber1499 clittera1529 cackle1530 prattle1532 blatter1533 blab1535 to run on pattens1546 tattle1547 prittle-prattlea1555 trattlea1555 tittle-tattle1556 quiddlea1566 brabble1570 clicket1570 twattle1573 gabble1574 prittle1583 to like to hear oneself speak, talk1597 to word it1612 deblaterate1623 tongue1624 twitter1630 snatter1647 oversay1656 whiffle1706 to gallop away1711 splutter1728 gob1770 gibble-gabble1775 palaver1781 to talk (etc.) nineteen to the dozen1785 gammon1789 witter1808 yabble1808 yaff1808 mag1810 chelp1820 tongue-pad1825 yatter1825 potter1826 chipper1829 jaw-jaw1831 buzz1832 to shoot off one's mouth1864 yawp1872 blate1878 chin1884 yap1888 spiel1894 to talk (also lie, swear, etc.) a blue streak1895 to run off at the mouth1908 chattermag1909 clatfart1913 to talk a streak1915 to run one's mouth1916 natter1942 ear-bash1944 rabbit1950 yack1950 yacker1961 to eat parrot head (also bottom)1965 yacket1969 to twat on1996 1965 C. R. Ottley Trinidadianese 13 He wife eat parrot head. 1985 Telescope 4 34 But when I come back now the King is smiling.., and then he start-off to talk like he done eat parrot. 1997 P. Melville Ventriloquist's Tale (1998) 4 ‘He must have eaten parrot-bottom,’ they used to say wearily, when they heard my non-stop chatter. 2014 @_91tilinfinity 15 Apr. in twitter.com accessed 27 Nov. 2020 Dem ah gwan like dem nyam parrot batty fi breakfast, lunch and dinner. Compounds C1. General attributive. parrot cage n. ΚΠ 1699 W. Dampier Voy. & Descr. ii. vi. 129 With Provision, Chests, Hencoops and Parrot-Cages, our Ships were full of Lumber. 1886 J. M. Morton Taken from French 140 A parrot cage under my arm all the way to the Sandwich Islands! 1985 J. Barnes Flaubert's Parrot (BNC) 58 Someone had the idea of placing at the foot of his tree an enormous parrot-cage. parrot family n. ΚΠ 1852 H. Murray Encycl. Geogr. V. 187 This continent [is] so well clothed with forests and fruit-bearing trees, upon which the whole of the Parrot family depend for food. 1930 W. M. Mann Wild Animals in & out of Zoo xx. 254 The only one of the parrot family really indigenous to America north of Mexico is the beautiful though noisy Carolina paroquet. 1999 Guardian 6 Aug. 11/1 More than one quarter of the parrot family—the psittaciformes—are threatened or in imminent danger of extinction. † parrot-form n. Obsolete rare ΚΠ 1885 A. Newton in Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 322/1 The home of the vast majority of Parrot-forms is..within the tropics. † parrot island n. Obsolete rare ΚΠ 1885 R. L. Stevenson Child's Garden of Verses 4 Where below another sky Parrot islands anchored lie. parrot pie n. ΚΠ 1839 S. Austral. Rec. (London) 13 Mar. 160 While you crowd round the fire and read this, we shall be eating the leg of a kangaroo or a parrot-pie in the open air. 2002 Time Out (Nexis) 29 May 49 Here you'll find recipes for parrot pie, roast wallaby and jugged pukaki. parrot species n. ΚΠ 1845 Bell's Life in Sydney 18 Jan. 3/4 A most extraordinary bird of the parrot species, commonly called the green leek, a native of New South Wales. 1949 H. W. C. Vines Green's Man. Pathol. (ed. 17) x. 270 Psittacosis.—This is a virus infection of birds of the parrot species. 1990 Nature Conservancy Sept. 35/3 Travel by small boats through Crooked Tree Wildlife Sanctuary to see pygmy kingfishers, boat-billed herons, and several parrot species. parrot tribe n. now rare ΚΠ 1772 Gentleman's Mag. Nov. 505/1 The food of these birds [sc. Piscivorous Toucan] being fruit, like the parrot-tribe. 1793 J. Hunter Hist. Jrnl. Trans. Port Jackson ii. 58 Birds..of the parrot tribe..are clothed with the most beautiful plumage that can be conceived. 1874 W. B. Carpenter Princ. Mental Physiol. (1879) i. ii. §83 89 Birds of the Parrot tribe are pre-eminent for their educability. 1948 F. Pitt Birds in Brit. xxii. 272 This bird comes from Australia, a great home of the parrot tribe. C2. In the sense ‘of, characteristic of, resembling, or reminiscent of a parrot’, esp. with reference to the mindless and mechanical repetition of words or phrases in the manner of a parrot. parrot cry n. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > repetition > [noun] > something repeated overword?a1513 sanctus1594 reassumption1611 dixit1628 overcome?a1800 parrot cry1814 stereotype1850 repetend1874 parrot-echo1892 the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > unintelligible language, gibberish > [noun] > meaningless repetition > instance of parrot cry1814 1814 S. T. Coleridge in Courier 4 Jan. 2/1 This parrot cry, this habit of faction. 1924 Times 7 Aug. 12/4 The Conservative Party would be at a disadvantage in that they would be fighting against a parrot cry demanding the abolition of the House of Lords. 2002 Japan Times (Nexis) 7 Mar. Even now, the parrot cry for ‘more aid’ echoes around international gatherings as the ‘answer’ to African misery and misrule. parrot-echo n. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > repetition > [noun] > something repeated overword?a1513 sanctus1594 reassumption1611 dixit1628 overcome?a1800 parrot cry1814 stereotype1850 repetend1874 parrot-echo1892 1892 J. Tait Mind in Matter (ed. 2) 238 False miracles or parrot-echoes of real ones. 1986 Jrnl. Rom. Stud. 76 281 Myres could give the parrot-echo of Herodotus because at the time of writing too little had been produced to controvert it. parrot-faculty n. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > [noun] > parrot-like imitation > condition or faculty of being parrot-faculty1846 parrothood1894 1846 Blackwood's Mag. Apr. 466/2 This bird's chief faculty was singing, seldom a parrot faculty, but its ear was so perfect, that it acquired tunes with great rapidity. 1867 J. S. Blackie in Trans. Royal Soc. Edinb. 24 4 The delighted parent, by the exercise of the parrot faculty, immediately forms a name for his son. 1919 E. B. Miles Our Southern Birds 29 Whether Crows have the parrot faculty of imitating sounds of speech or not, it is certain that they have a greater range of signals and communication-sounds of their own than other birds † parrot fury n. Obsolete ΚΠ 1607 Merrie Iests George Peele 32 At which she biting her lip, in a parat furie went downe the stayres. parrot-lawyer n. ΚΠ 1616 T. Adams Sacrifice of Thankefulnesse 76 Their Bandogs, corrupt Soliciters, Parrat-Lawyers; that are their properties, and meere Trunkes. 2000 Press Jrnl. (Vero Beach, Florida) (Nexis) 16 Dec. a10 These flames were fanned not by strong winds but rather by a flock of parrot-lawyers that came down from DNC headquarters and vocally fanned the flames. parrot learning n. ΚΠ 1854 J. Laurie Parent's Guide 135 It is too often just as common to confine a mere infant all day over its parrot learning, as it is to require the same application of a child of far more advanced development. 2003 South China Morning Post (Hong Kong) (Nexis) 15 Feb. 6 If more people switched to English channels they would find themselves in the best environment to enhance their skills and interest in the language beyond mere parrot learning. parrot phrase n. ΚΠ 1851 Fraser's Mag. Sept. 306/1 He urged my merits; she replied that (no one spoke the sentence, but I knew the parrot-phrase too well!) I was so common-place. 1958 People 4 May 4/2 I can get no comment except the parrot-phrase: ‘The Home Secretary is still considering this case.’ 2002 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 8 June 46 The inhabitants at Ambergris have agreed not to use the corporate parrot phrase of going forward, but well, it's time to be moving onward. † parrot prate n. Obsolete ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > [noun] > parrot-like imitation parrot-prating1582 parrotism1613 parrotry1796 parrot prate1804 the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > unintelligible language, gibberish > [noun] > meaningless repetition > production of parrot-prating1582 parakeetism1658 parrot prate1804 rhubarbing1953 1804 J. Wolcot Epist. to Ld. Mayor in Wks. (1812) V. 206 Despise his mind and parrot-prate. 1874 J. Arnould Life Thomas, First Ld. Denman II. xxxiii. 183 It made him mad to hear the parrot prate with which these sciolists of political economy retailed the arguments of the abler and astuter wire-pullers. † parrot-prating n. Obsolete ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > [noun] > parrot-like imitation parrot-prating1582 parrotism1613 parrotry1796 parrot prate1804 the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > unintelligible language, gibberish > [noun] > meaningless repetition > production of parrot-prating1582 parakeetism1658 parrot prate1804 rhubarbing1953 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis i. 8 His prittye parat prating. 1854 Harper's Mag. Oct. 710/1 She does not, however,..indulge in parrot-pratings, repeating the stale echoes of previous travelers. † parrot teaching n. Obsolete ΚΠ 1887 C. A. Moloney Sketch Forestry W. Afr. 255 Too much time devoted in the past to the exercise of memory, to ‘parrot’ teaching. 1895 Overland Monthly Oct. 405/2 It may be said that what is called ‘parrot teaching’ is unknown in the schools of Hawaii. parrot voice n. ΚΠ 1892 Cent. Mag. Sept. 705/1 You might hear their parrot voices screaming the length of the street. 1992 E. González Monstered Self iv. 180 Poor Patiño's parrot voice drowns in the ink of baroque lampooning, like a talking raven crushed by an oracular writing desk. parrot way n. ΚΠ 1828 Lights & Shades Eng. Life I. 318 Their notions are in all cases alike infused in the true parrot way. 1994 NPR: Morning Edition (transcript of radio programme) (Nexis) 24 Jan. I think if papers think that they're gonna save themselves by becoming a different form of medium, that's a kind of parrot way to survive. parrot-work n. ΚΠ 1806 Edinb. Rev. 7 468 Avoiding..what he calls parrot-work. 1877 T. H. Huxley in Nature 19 July 234/1 The mere catechismal parrot-work which too often usurps the place of elementary teaching. 1965 N. B. Emerson Unwritten Lit. of Hawaii xi. 98 She replied that her part was only that of a mouthpiece to repeat the words and to make appropriate gestures..mere parrot-work. C3. Similative. parrot-beaked adj. ΚΠ 1907 R. M. Laing & E. W. Blackwell Plants N.Z. (ed. 2) 210 Clianthus puniceus (The Scarlet Clianthus)... Native name Kowhai-ngutu-kaka, signifying the Parrot-beaked kowhai. 1978 Nature 17 Aug. 663/1 More groups of big ornithischians were added to the fauna..: parrot-beaked psittacosaurs, protoceratopsids, [etc.]. 2001 Oxoniensia 65 412 Two pits..produced..a 14th-century baluster jug and a parrot-beaked spout jug. parrot-billed adj. ΚΠ 1836 W. Dunlap Thirty Years Ago vii. 065 His head was large, his visage long, his nose thin, high and hooked (sometimes called Roman and sometimes parrot-billed). 1887 A. C. Smith Birds Wilts. 517 Razor-bill (Alca torda)... Provincially it is called ‘Parrot-billed Willcock’, or ‘Willy’. 1993 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 26 June 8 The tool used is a pair of loppers with parrot-billed jaws. parrot-bright adj. ΚΠ 1920 E. Sitwell Wooden Pegasus 24 From her fan, sliding slow, Parrot-bright fire's feathers. 2001 Daily Record (Glasgow) (Nexis) 20 Oct. 36 The winter stems are parrot-bright, a truly heart-warming sight on a grey day. parrot-learnt adj. ΚΠ 1848 Biblical Repository July 393 The one is a drowsy, formal hearing of a parrot-learned lesson, or the periodical, heartless delivery of some stereotype wisdom. 2001 Times (Nexis) 24 Apr. He's not interested in directing English singers mouthing parrot-learnt Czech to an English audience. parrot-looking adj. ΚΠ a1854 E. Grant Mem. Highland Lady (1988) II. xxix. 294 Parrot looking birds were among the branches. 1995 Charleston (W. Va.) Gaz. (Nexis) 6 Nov. 1 b Woman went into a pet store where she saw this huge, parrot-looking, green bird. parrot-nosed adj. ΚΠ 1845 C. M. Krikland Western Clearings 072 Mr. Keene is low of stature, rather globular in contour, and exceedingly parrot-nosed. 1999 Racing Post (Nexis) 23 Sept. 55 ‘The parrot-nosed bitch’, born in England around 1830. parrot-plumed adj. ΚΠ 1923 E. Sitwell Bucolic Comedies 25 Who came from the parrot-plumed sea. 1997 Gazette (Montreal) (Nexis) 27 Jan. a2 Parrot-plumed jackets and macaw-feather appliques. parrot-sharp adj. ΚΠ 1936 E. Sitwell Victoria of Eng. ii. 33 Her dark parrot-sharp face. C4. Objective. parrot shooting n. ΚΠ 1865 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend II. iii. vii. 63 You could hardly have been out parrot-shooting, in the British climate. 1995 New Statesman & Society (Nexis) 21 July 35 Askey seems to be the outback's first signed-up Green, tut-tutting at Uncle Jack's (Vanya's) parrot shooting. C5. † parrot and monkey time n. U.S. colloquial (Obsolete) an argumentative time, a period of quarrelling or fighting. ΚΠ 1876 G. A. Custer Let. 20 May in E. Custer Boots & Saddles (1885) 266 We are having the ‘parrot's time’ with the expedition.] 1882 Brooklyn Daily Eagle 19 Mar. 1 O they have been having a regular parrot and monkey time of it down at Quitman. 1891 T. Roosevelt Let. 15 June (1951) I. 251 It does seem to me, however, as though some of the elect on the other side have been having a parrot and monkey time too, for which praised be a merciful Providence. 1920 Hunter, Trader, Trapper Nov. 49/1 For a time the ingenuity and courage of the men and dogs were put against those of the big cat and then and there was enacted a truly ‘Parrot and Monkey time’. † parrot-bullfinch n. Obsolete rare a parrotbill of the genus Paradoxornis.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries. ΚΠ 1890 Cent. Dict. Parrot-bullfinch, any Asiatic bird of the genus Paradoxornis: so called from the character of the bill. parrot crossbill n. a large crossbill of northern Eurasia, Loxia pytyopsittacus, with a very stout bill. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > family Fringillidae (finch) > [noun] > subfamily Carduelinae > genus Loxia (crossbill) sheld-apple1666 crossbilla1672 cross-beak1688 loxia1706 parrot crossbill1825 1825 P. J. Selby Illustr. Brit. Ornithol.: Pt. 1st 254 Parrot-Crossbill. 1894 R. B. Sharpe Handbk. Birds Great Brit. (1896) 58 The so-called ‘Parrot’ Crossbill..is an inhabitant chiefly of Northern Europe, whence it ranges occasionally into the British Islands. 1991 Bird Watching June 53/5 Two parrot crossbills were at Clocaenog. parrot disease n. = psittacosis n. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorder of respiratory organs > [noun] > disorders of lungs > caused by fungus or parasite pneumotyphus1846 pneumonomycosis1875 pneumomycosis1890 psittacosis1896 aspergillosis1898 histoplasmosis1907 nocardiosis1907 parrot disease1908 torulosis1929 coccidioidomycosis1937 valley fever1938 ornithosis1939 farmer's lung1944 parrot fever1947 San Joaquin Valley fever1958 1908 Spratt's Parrot Culture 29 Should a room have become infected with the parrot disease..it will be needful to have it fumigated with sulphur. 1955 Times 8 June 6/4 A case of psittacosis (parrot disease) has occurred in the aircraft-carrier Centaur, which berthed here to-day on her return from the Mediterranean. parrot fever n. = psittacosis n. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorder of respiratory organs > [noun] > disorders of lungs > caused by fungus or parasite pneumotyphus1846 pneumonomycosis1875 pneumomycosis1890 psittacosis1896 aspergillosis1898 histoplasmosis1907 nocardiosis1907 parrot disease1908 torulosis1929 coccidioidomycosis1937 valley fever1938 ornithosis1939 farmer's lung1944 parrot fever1947 San Joaquin Valley fever1958 1947 Life 17 Nov. 157/2 (caption) Germ hosts for lab-cultivated diseases include..chick embryos (mumps, typhus and parrot fever). 1995 Daily Tel. 1 Aug. 14/5 In severe cases, parrot or pigeon fever can be fatal. parrot-finch n. †(a) a crossbill of the genus Loxia (obsolete rare); (b) any waxbill of the genus Erythrura, typically with green upperparts, native to South-East Asia and Australasia.Sense (a) is apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries. ΚΠ 1829 E. Griffith et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom VII. 140 Parrot finch. 1896 List Vertebrated Animals Gardens Zool. Soc. (ed. 9) 252 Erythrura psittacea (Gm.). Parrot-Finch. Hab. New Caledonia. 1958 E. T. Gilliard Living Birds of World 383/1 An example is the Green-faced Parrot-finch (Erythrura viridifacies), a four-inch grass-green finch with a sharp crimson tail. 1993 Cage & Aviary Birds 13 Nov. 18/6 The birds seized included Mynahs, Avadavats, Pekin Robins, Parrot Finches, Dollar Birds, [etc.]. parrot green n. and adj. (a) n. a yellowish green resembling the colouring of some parrots; (b) adj. of this colour. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > green or greenness > [noun] > shade or tint of green > yellowish green popinjayc1484 parrot green1646 gosling-green1756 siskin green1757 Pomona green1788 chrysoprase1835 Georgian green1918 honeydew1920 Pomona1969 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iii. xiii. 138 The little Frogge of an excellent Parrat-green, that usually sits on trees and bushes. View more context for this quotation 1727 E. Chambers Cycl. at Green The Dyers make divers Shades, or Casts of Green, as..Sea-Green, Dark-Green, Parrot-Green, and Celadon-Green. 1858 ‘G. Eliot’ Janet's Repentance ii, in Scenes Clerical Life II. 63 Long, drooping ostrich feathers of parrot green. 1955 E. Bowen World of Love ii. 39 Her parrot-green satin shirt. 2003 India Business Insight (Nexis) 5 June The tiles are available in several colours ranging from parrot green to chilli red. parrot mouth n. Veterinary Medicine a malformation of the mouth, esp. in horses, in which the mandible is abnormally short and the upper incisors project beyond the lower. ΚΠ 1869 R. F. Burton Explor. Highlands Brazil I. viii. 97 All [the horses] were in good condition..there are no ‘parrot mouths’. 1968 Observer's Bk. Horses & Ponies (rev. ed.) Gloss. 262 Undershot mouth, one which is deformed by having the lower jaw protruding beyond the upper with results similar to those caused by parrot mouth. 2002 Bangor (Maine) Daily News (Nexis) 2 Aug. 5 Ewe lambs must be free of parrot mouth, foot rot and scrapie. parrot-perch n. †(a) Australian. Obsolete. rare = parrotfish n.; (b) [after Brazilian Portuguese pau de arara] (also parrot's perch) a horizontal bar used as an instrument of torture, the victim being suspended upside down with his or her legs bent over the bar; (also) this method of torture.Sense (a) is apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > suborder Percoidei > [noun] > member of family Scaridae (parrot-fish) Scarus1601 parrotfish1656 sea-parrot1666 scare1706 scaroa1717 scar1748 parrot wrasse1884 parrot-perch1898 1898 E. E. Morris Austral Eng. 342/1 Parrot-fish, name given in Australia to Pseudoscarus pseudolabrus; called in the Australian tropics Parrot-perch. 1974 C. Hampton Savages (1976) xii. 66 They..gave her all the usual treatment, more rape, electric shock, hanging her upside-down on the parrot perch and beating her. 1991 Soldier of Fortune Dec. 41/3 Victim is strapped on wooden bar and beaten in pau de arara, parrot's perch, a method of torture in Chile. 2003 Toronto Star (Nexis) 9 May a1 There's no ‘parrot perch’, or hanging metal bar that is a staple of most Brazilian prisons. † parrot's corn n. Obsolete rare the seeds of safflower, Carthamus tinctorius.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > plants used in dyeing > [noun] > saffron-thistle > seeds parrot's corn1857 1857 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) Parrot's Corn, common name for the seeds of the Carthamus tinctorius, or bastard saffron. parrot's feather n. (also parrot feather, parrotfeather) a water milfoil, Myriophyllum aquaticum, with whorls of green feather-like foliage, native to South America and now grown and naturalized widely elsewhere. ΚΠ 1892 Garden & Forest 5 44/2 Azolla Caroliniana (Floating Moss) is an interesting plant, and so is the Water Hyacinth and the Parrot's Feather (Myriophyllum). 1936 W. B. McDougall & H. A. Baggley Plants of Yellowstone National Park 94 Myriophyllum... The genus is often known as parrotfeather. 1954 R. E. Coker Streams, Lakes, & Ponds xiv. 270 A plant often favored for aquaria is the parrot's feather, one of the water milfoils (Myriophyllum). 2001 Org. Gardening July 25/1 Parrot feather (Myriophyllum aquaticum) is best suited to Zone 8 and colder water gardens. parrot snake n. any of several slender, green, South American tree snakes of the colubrid genus Leptophis, esp. L. ahaetulla. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > [noun] > unspecified and miscellaneous types of worm-kinc893 slow-wormOE hagworm?c1475 salpege1569 scytale1572 house snake1608 porphyre1608 ellops1667 sea-serpent1672 tree-serpent1731 boyuna1763 whip-snake1774 garter-snake1775 switch-snake1791 argus-snake1802 rat snake1818 skaapsteker1818 sea-snake1827 short-tail1879 roof-snake1884 brown snake1896 herald-snake1910 night snake1918 parrot snake1931 1931 R. L. Ditmars Snakes of World Pl. 19 (caption) Green Tree Snake; Chocoya or Parrot Snake, Leptophis occidentalis. Found from Guatemala to northern South America. 1958 J. Carew Wild Coast ii. 28 A green parrot-snake slithered down a coconut tree. 1995 C. Mattison Encycl. Snakes vi. 128/1 (caption) The South American parrot snake, Leptophis ahaetulla, has a stereotyped defensive behaviour. parrots' plague n. (also parrot plague) rare = psittacosis n. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of birds > [noun] > disorders of parrots parrots' plague1895 parrots' rinderpest1895 1895 Daily News 19 Dec. 5/4 Spoken of as the parrots' plague..called by Laics parrots' rinderpest... One of the persons who died..at Versailles of the distemper was an officer's wife. 1930 Aberdeen Press & Jrnl. 10 Jan. 5 Recently three persons were reported to have died from ‘parrot plague’ at Berlin and two at Prague. The disease is rare and is known to medical science as psittacosis. 2000 Herald Sun (Melbourne) (Nexis) 10 Oct. 9 Parrot plague. A Tasmanian man has died and two others are ill from parrot fever. † parrots' rinderpest n. Obsolete rare = psittacosis n. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of birds > [noun] > disorders of parrots parrots' plague1895 parrots' rinderpest1895 1895 Daily News 19 Dec. 5/4 Spoken of as the parrots' plague..called by Laics parrots' rinderpest... One of the persons who died..at Versailles of the distemper was an officer's wife. parrot teacher n. †(a) a person who repeats empty or meaningless phrases (obsolete); (b) a person who trains parrots to speak. ΚΠ 1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing i. i. 132 You are a rare parrat teacher . View more context for this quotation 2002 Independent (Nexis) 31 Aug. 10 Although in ancient Rome it was often the responsibility of the household slave to teach the parrot to talk, professional parrot teachers offered a service too. parrot-toed adj. and adv. (a) adj. pigeon-toed; (b) adv. in a pigeon-toed manner. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > deformity > deformities of specific parts > [adjective] > of foot hurleda1500 splay-footed1545 polt-foot?1589 polt-footed1589 club-footed1591 stump-foot1593 flat-footed1601 stump-footed1602 feetless1614 splay-foot1622 splatter-footeda1644 shauchled1737 hurl-footed1752 parrot-toed1764 splaw1767 pigeon-toed1786 bumble-footed1823 in-toed1835 chicken-toed1859 infooted1899 1764 J. Adams Let. 7 May in L. H. Butterfield et al. Adams Family Corr. (1963) I. 45 A sixth Imperfection is that of Walking, with the Toes bending inward. This Imperfection is commonly called Parrot-toed. 1849 W. F. Lynch Exped. Jordan v. 91 Most of the Turks walk what is termed parrot-toed, very much like our Indians. 1896 Harper's Mag. May 867/1 They wagered that she was knock-kneed, parrot-toed, tongue-tied, silly, consumptive, cross, jealous. 1996 R. Allsopp Dict. Caribbean Eng. Usage 430/2 Parrot-toed, having the toes turned inward. parrot tongue n. a tongue like that of a parrot; spec. (a) the tongue of a person who repeats words or phrases parrot-fashion; the tongue of a person who talks a lot or who is a good mimic; †(b) Medicine a dry shrivelled condition of the human tongue occurring in typhus and other fevers (obsolete rare). ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > repetition > [noun] > rapid or mechanical repetition > one who recites mechanically patterera1522 parroter1623 roter1624 parrot tongue1773 psittacist1923 the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > [noun] > parrot-like imitation > one who > tongue of parrot tongue1773 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of mouth > [noun] > disorders of tongue froga1398 ranula?a1425 tongue-evil1662 agrom1753 frog-tongue1822 glossocele1823 black tongue1833 glossitis1834 glossoplegia1854 strawberry tongue1874 smoker's patch1888 parrot tongue1897 1773 J. Robertson Poems (rev. ed.) 276 Mellifluous Sounds, devoid of all Offence, Join'd to a strange Vacuity of Sense, Which from Tautology's dull Parrot Tongue From Morn to Night are either said or sung. 1860 C. Reade Cloister & Hearth (1896) lviii. 179 If you would but..hold your parrot tongues. 1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. II. 357 Dry, brown-crusted, shrivelled tongue—‘the parrot-tongue’ of typhus. 1990 Associated Press Newswire (Nexis) 9 Mar. Whenever I'm working and doing another accent, I avoid calling my family. It's hard to switch it on and off. You have to be afflicted with a parrot tongue. parrot tulip n. see sense 4. parrot weed n. Caribbean (now rare) the tree celandine, Bocconia frutescens. ΚΠ 1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica 245 Bocconia... Parrot-weed. 1801 T. Dancer Med. Assistant 368 Juice of the Wild Celandine, or Parrot Weed. 1914 W. Fawcett & A. B. Rendle Flora Jamaica 223 John Crow Bush, Parrot Weed, celandine. 1999 L. Coverdale tr. P. Chamoiseau Chron. Seven Sorrows 130 He alleviated their chronic bronchitis with infusions of parrot weed,..and a syrup of carpenter's herb. parrot wrasse n. = parrotfish n. a, b. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > suborder Percoidei > [noun] > member of family Scaridae (parrot-fish) Scarus1601 parrotfish1656 sea-parrot1666 scare1706 scaroa1717 scar1748 parrot wrasse1884 parrot-perch1898 1884 Longman's Mag. Mar. 529 Certain tropical species of herrings and parrot-wrasses. 1931 E. G. Boulenger Fishes xvi. 125 The gaily painted Parrot Wrasses (Scaridæ) of tropical and semi-tropical seas, have lips hardened to form a parrot-like beak. 1992 Pract. Fishkeeping Aug. 81 A beautiful Cirrhilabrus from Fiji which is yet to be named, but had been dubbed the ‘Shimmering Parrot Wrasse’. Derivatives parroˈtese n. the language of parrots. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > unintelligible language, gibberish > [noun] > meaningless repetition lip-labour?1548 lip-labouring1549 hibber-gibber1593 lip-work1631 echolalia1885 parrotese1889 rhubarb1919 1889 F. M. Müller Nat. Relig. xiv. 361 The parrot never speaks parrotese. 2001 New Straits Times (Malaysia) (Nexis) 28 July 11 What, if there is any, is the language of parrots? Malay? German? Or ‘Parrotese’? ˈparrothood n. the state or condition of being a parrot. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > [noun] > parrot-like imitation > condition or faculty of being parrot-faculty1846 parrothood1894 1894 N.Y. Daily Tribune 5 July 12/1 From early parrothood the lost one displayed a keen sense of the conventionalities of polite speech. 1990 People (Nexis) 10 Dec. 126 Max's predecessor in parrothood, Alvin, lived with Elizabeth for 10 years before he died this fall. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). parrotn.² Brit. /ˈparət/, U.S. /ˈpɛrət/, Scottish English /ˈparət/ Forms: 1700s– parrot; Scottish pre-1700 parrat, pre-1700 parratte, pre-1700 parret, pre-1700 parrett, 1700s parot, 1700s– parrot. Origin: Of unknown origin. Etymology: Origin unknown.Quot. 1853 probably reflects a folk etymology. Scottish and English regional (northern). In full parrot coal. Cannel coal. Formerly also: †a lump of cannel coal (obsolete). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > coal or types of coal > [noun] coal1253 sea-coal1253 pit-coal1483 cannel1541 earth coala1552 horse coal1552 Newcastle coal1552 stone-coal1585 cannel coal1587 parrot1594 burn-coal1597 lithanthrax1612 stony coal1617 Welsh coala1618 land-coala1661 foot coal1665 peacock coal1686 rough coal1686 white coal1686 heathen-coalc1697 coal-stone1708 round1708 stone-coal1708 bench-coal1712 slipper coal1712 black coal1713 culm1742 rock coal1750 board coal1761 Bovey coal1761 house coal1784 mineral coal1785 splint1789 splint coal1789 jet coal1794 anthracite1797 wood-coal1799 blind-coal1802 black diamond1803 silk-coal1803 glance-coal1805 lignite1808 Welsh stone-coal1808 soft1811 spout coals1821 spouter1821 Wallsend1821 brown coal1833 paper coal1833 steam-coal1850 peat-coal1851 cherry-coal1853 household1854 sinter coal1854 oil coal1856 raker1857 Kilkenny coal1861 Pottery coal1867 silkstone1867 block coal1871 admiralty1877 rattlejack1877 bunker1883 fusain1883 smitham1883 bunker coal1885 triping1886 trolley coal1890 kibble1891 sea-borne1892 jet1893 steam1897 sack coal1898 Welsh1898 navigation coal1900 Coalite1906 clarain1919 durain1919 vitrain1919 single1921 kolm1930 hards1956 the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > hydrocarbon minerals > [noun] > coal > cannel coal cannel1541 cannel coal1587 parrot1594 coal-stone1728 jet coal1794 jet1893 kolm1930 1594 in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue (1983) at Parrat-coll Reservand to the saidis lordis self..the coll callit the parrat coll. 1617 in J. Imrie & J. G. Dunbar Accts. Masters of Wks. (1982) II. 28 For tua laid of coalles and a burding of parrattes to the glasinwrycht. 1645–6 J. Hope Diary in Misc. Sc. Hist. Soc. (1958) IX. 146 Or lyke a hard parrett coalle. 1713 Rep. of Blairingon Coal in Atholl MSS in Sc. National Dict. (at cited word) They measured the Coall and finds that it is exactly 17 Inches thick of a black Coall and tuo Inches above wall of a parrot Coall. 1772 Edinb. Evening Courant 4 Jan. There are several seams of coal in the lands of New Gilstoun, particularly one of fine parrot. 1853 Pharm. Jrnl. & Trans. 13 124 ‘Parrot’..might be applied to them, from the fact that, when burning, they ‘chattered’ somewhat like a parrot. 1877 J. Le Conte Elements Geol. (1879) v. 343 Cannel or parrot coal is a dense, dry, structureless, lustreless, highly-bituminous variety, which breaks with a conchoidal fracture. 1925 H. M. Cadell Rocks W. Lothian 19 Some kinds of cannel, locally known as ‘wild parrot’ or ‘pelt’, are so full of ash as to be unworkable. 1952 R. Holman Diamond Panes 120 The coal used in the manufacture of the gas was the ‘parrot’, a highly inflammable coal, not very plentiful. 1999 A. Findlay Shale Voices 208 Many samples were tested, and the most productive was found to be Torbanite—also known as Boghead Parrot Coal. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). parrotv. Brit. /ˈparət/, U.S. /ˈpɛrət/ Forms: see parrot n.¹ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: parrot n.¹ Etymology: < parrot n.¹ 1. intransitive. To chatter like a parrot; to talk incessantly, inconsequentially, or repetitively; to gossip; (in recent use) frequently with on. Formerly also †transitive: to repeat in the manner of a gossip (obsolete rare). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > imitate [verb (intransitive)] > slavishly or mechanically slave1589 parrot1596 parrotize1647 poll-parrot1865 the mind > language > speech > repetition > repeat [verb (intransitive)] > mechanically chimec1405 pattera1425 parrot1596 parrotize1647 pitter1805 poll-parrot1865 the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > unintelligible language, gibberish > talk gibberish [verb (intransitive)] > with repetition parrot1596 rhubarb1962 1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. S^v Hee would do nothing but crake and parret it in Print, in how manie Noble-mens fauours hee was. 1612 G. Chapman Widdowes Teares v. sig. L^v If you Parrat to me long. 1616 T. Scot Philomythie sig. D8^v The Wood-cocke, Parrat, The Goose, the Dotterell, Iacke-dawe prone to parret [printed barret]. 1701 T. Baker Humour of Age iv. ii. 38 The Play-house! Ay, that's the Place where such young bold Slutts as you are nurs'd up in your Impudence; where you parrot to the Men. 1865 D. M. Mullock Christian's Mistake (1975) viii. 116 Dismissed under circumstances which..would soon be parroted about to every lady in Avonsbridge. 1912 ‘R. Andom’ Neighbours of Mine 194 Go and get me some breakfast and don't stand there parroting about the kind of drunk you prefer. 1970 C. Hampton Philanthropist iv. 49 Will you please stop parroting on about breakfast? 2002 Scotsman (Nexis) 30 Nov. 15 Think about that the next time a government minister parrots on about having made brave decisions. 2. transitive. To repeat (words, ideas, or actions) mindlessly or mechanically; to repeat the words, ideas, or actions of (another person) without apparent understanding or thought; to mimic. Formerly also †intransitive (obsolete rare). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > imitate [verb (transitive)] > imitate slavishly or parrot parrot1640 pie1657 poll-parrot1868 copycat1932 parrotize1957 the mind > language > speech > repetition > repeat [verb (transitive)] > rapidly mechanically pitter-patterc1500 patter1531 pittle-pattle1549 rote?1606 parrot1640 cuckoo1648 chime1697 thrum1710 chant1812 poll-parrot1865 1640 H. Mill Nights Search xxvii. 110 Like a gallant of great Pluto's Court, With borrowed language, one must make him sport:..Yet, if he can but parrat on the stage, He's now a Gentleman. 1665 J. Crowne Pandion & Amphigenia 12 She is no Jay trickt up in others feathers, nor popinjay to parrat others Wit. 1795 T. Holcroft Deserted Daughter ii. iii. 20 Plucked because I could not parrot over their premises and predicates, majors and minors, antecedents and consequents. 1823 T. De Quincey Lett. Young Man in London Mag. July 88/2 To parrot the ipsissima verba of Kant. 1872 F. Hall Rec. Exempl. False Philol. 31 The verb experience is, to Mr. White, parroting Dean Alford, altogether objectionable. 1930 W. J. Locke Town of Tombarel vi. 183 ‘It comes from the sun’ said Angelique, obviously parroting Tombarel. 1965 Austral. Women's Weekly 20 Jan. 48/1 ‘I'll wait,’ he said. ‘He'll wait,’ she parroted. 2002 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 30 Mar. 14 While young Raja Petra was parroting the manners and mores of the British, Anwar was building his credentials as a political activist. †3. transitive. To teach (a person) by rote or mechanical repetition; to drill or train like a parrot. Usually in passive. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > education > teaching > training > train [verb (transitive)] > drill or rehearse exercise1388 exercite1475 practise1551 rehearse1768 parrot1775 soldier1780 drill1798 1775 S. J. Pratt Liberal Opinions (1783) I. iii. 9 The most sensible people are frequently parrotted; they think as they are bid to think, and talk the dull dialect of their teachers, from the cradle to the coffin. 1806 T. Holcroft Vindictive Man II. i. 13 It was you that parroted my daughter to plead for Maitland. 1827 C. Lamb Let. 4 Oct. (1935) III. 137 We are parroted into delicacy. 1890 Sat. Rev. 15 Feb. 196/2 The rank and file are tutored and parroted by author, by manager, or by state-manager. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹a1529n.²1594v.1596
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