parrotnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈpær.ət/us/ˈper.ət/B1 a tropical bird with a curved beak, often kept as a pet and trained to copy the human voice
Examples
- She used to keep a parrot in a cage.
- Lara liked the parrots at the zoo.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Birds commonly kept as pets
- budgie
- canary
- cockatoo
- galah
- homing pigeon
- Indian mynah
- lorikeet
- macaw
- mynah
- parakeet
- pigeon
- racing pigeon
- rosella
- sulphur-crested cockatoo
parrotverb [ T ]
uk/ˈpær.ət/us/ˈper.ət/disapprovingto repeat exactly what someone else says, without understanding it or thinking about its meaning:
She doesn't have an original thought in her head - she just parrots anything that Sara says.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Saying again
- circle
- drum
- echo
- flog
- flog sth to death idiom
- go/run around in circles idiom
- go/run round in circles idiom
- inculcate
- indoctrinate
- labour the point idiom
- not hear the end/last of sth idiom
- parrot-fashion
- rake
- recapitulate
- regurgitate
- reiterate
- retweet
- tautology
- trot
- wheel
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