parrot
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
geography
geology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: First attested in 1525. From Middle French perrot, either a diminutive of Pierre or a shortened form of perroquet (whence also parakeet). Compare French pierrot and Occitan parrat. A number of origins have been suggested for perroquet, such as Spanish periquito and Italian parrocchetto. The relationship between these various words is disputed. Replaced earlier popinjay.
Inflected forms:
form: parrots
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: parrots
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: parroting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: parroted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: parroted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: parrotted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: parrotted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A kind of bird, many species of which are colorful and able to mimic human speech, of the order Psittaciformes or (narrowly) of the family Psittacidae.
pos: noun
examples: I bought a wonderful parrot at the pet store.
Mrs. Merdle was at home, and was in her nest of crimson and gold, with the parrot on a neighbouring stem watching her with his head on one side, as if he took her for another splendid parrot of a larger species.
This parrot is no more. It has ceased to be. It's expired and gone to see its maker. This is a late parrot. It's a stiff. Bereft of life, it rests in peace. If you hadn't nailed it to the perch it would be pushing up the daisies. It's run down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. This is an ex-parrot.
gloss: A parroter; a person who repeats the words or ideas of others.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: What kind of a parrot are you? He just said that.
In this distribution of functions, the scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state, he is, Man Thinking. In the degenerate state, when the victim of society, he tends to become a mere thinker, or, still worse, the parrot of other men’s thinking.
gloss: A puffin.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
gloss: channel coal.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A transponder.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: To repeat (exactly what has just been said) without necessarily showing understanding, in the manner of a parrot.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The interviewee merely parroted the views of her tabloid.
So when political leaders parrot the tobacco company line, say cigarettes are not necessarily addictive, and oppose our efforts to keep tobacco away from our children, they continue to cater to powerful interests, but they're not standing up for parents and children.
While interviewing officers, some prosecutors will tell them what the law will require that he, the prosecutor, establish through his witnesses. The officer-witness will then parrot back those requirements, making his testimony fit the requirements of the law.
But residents say steady Russian military pressure – combined now with an American president’s apparent parroting of Kremlin talking points about the war, and his push for a ceasefire that could include Ukrainian territorial losses – means Russia is also winning in a different way, by escalating Ukrainian anxiety.
Synonyms: parrot
Related words: Polly
popinjay
Dead Parrot
who's a pretty boy then
Derived words: amazon parrot
antbed parrot
antbed parrot moth
black-headed parrot
blood parrot
blood parrotfish
Brehm's ground parrot
Brehm's tiger parrot
broad-billed parrot
burrowing parrot
cockatoo parrot
eclectus parrot
elegant parrot
fig parrot
golden-shouldered parrot
grass parrot
green leek parrot
grey parrot
hanging parrot
hawk-headed parrot
hooded parrot
king parrot
misparrot
monk parrot
mountain parrot
night parrot
orange-bellied parrot
orange-winged parrot
owl parrot
paradise parrot
parrot and monkey time
parrot-billed sparrow
parrotbill
parrot bush
parrot coal
parrot crossbill
parrot cry
parrot disease
parrotese
parrot feather
parrotfeather
parrot fever
parrotfinch
parrotfish
parrot flower
parrot green
Parrothead
parrothood
parrothouse
parrotless
parrotlet
parrotlike
parrot-like
parrot lily
parrotling
parrot pitcher plant
parrot's beak orchid
parrot's bill
parrot snake
parrot toadstool
parrot-toed
parrot waxcap
parrot weed
parrotwise
parroty
Pesquet's parrot
pissed as a parrot
Quaker parrot
raven parrot
red-capped parrot
red-fan parrot
red-rumped parrot
red-winged parrot
sea parrot
sea-parrot
shell parrot
short-tailed parrot
sick as a parrot
stochastic parrot
strangle the parrot
superb parrot
swift parrot
Timneh parrot
turquoise parrot
vulturine parrot
parroter
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