单词 | to eat parrot |
释义 | > as lemmasto eat parrot 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. < as lemmas |
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