| 单词 | parrot tongue |
| 释义 | > as lemmasparrot tongue 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. < as lemmas |
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