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parrot
CIDE DICTIONARY
parrot, n. [Prob. fr. F. Pierrot, dim. of Pierre Peter. F. pierrot is also the name of the sparrow. Cf. Paroquet, Petrel, Petrify.].
- In a general sense, any bird of the order
Psittaci . [1913 Webster] - Any species of
Psittacus ,Chrysotis ,Pionus , and other genera of the familyPsittacidæ , as distinguished from the parrakeets, macaws, and lories. They have a short rounded or even tail, and often a naked space on the cheeks. The gray parrot, or jako (Psittacus erithacus ) of Africa (see Jako), and the species of Amazon, or green, parrots (Chrysotis ) of America, are examples. Many species, as cage birds, readily learn to imitate sounds, and to repeat words and phrases. [1913 Webster]
parrot, v. t.
To repeat by rote, without understanding, as a parrot. [1913 Webster]
parrot, v. i.
To chatter like a parrot. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
parrot, n. & v.
--n.
1 any of various mainly tropical birds of the order Psittaciformes, with a short hooked bill, often having vivid plumage and able to mimic the human voice.
2 a person who mechanically repeats the words or actions of another.
--v.tr. (parroted, parroting) repeat mechanically.
--n.
1 any of various mainly tropical birds of the order Psittaciformes, with a short hooked bill, often having vivid plumage and able to mimic the human voice.
2 a person who mechanically repeats the words or actions of another.
--v.tr. (parroted, parroting) repeat mechanically.
Idiom
parrot-fashion (learning or repeating) mechanically without understanding. parrot-fish any fish of the genus Scarus, with a mouth like a parrot's bill and forming a protective mucous cocoon against predators.
Etymology
prob. f. obs. or dial. F perrot parrot, dimin. of Pierre Peter: cf. PARAKEET
THESAURUS
parrot
Babbitt, Middle American, Philistine, anal character, ape, bourgeois, burgher, come again, commit to memory, compulsive character, con, conformer, conformist, conventionalist, copier, copy, copycat, copyist, counterfeiter, cuckoo, dissembler, dissimulator, ditto, do a repeat, do again, do over, double, duplicate, echo, echoer, echoist, faker, forger, formalist, get by heart, get letter-perfect, have by heart, hit off, hit off on, hypocrite, imitate, imitator, impersonate, impersonator, impostor, know by heart, learn by heart, learn verbatim, memorize, methodologist, middle-class type, mime, mimer, mimic, mimicker, mock, mocker, mockingbird, model child, monkey, organization man, pedant, perfectionist, phony, plagiarist, plagiarize, plastic person, poll-parrot, polly, polly-parrot, poseur, precisian, precisianist, quote, recite, redo, redouble, reduplicate, reecho, regurgitate, reincarnate, reiterate, renew, repeat, repeat by heart, reproduce, revive, say again, sheep, simulator, square, study, swot up, take off, take off on, teenybopper, trimmer, yes-manROGET THESAURUS
parrot
Loquacity
N loquacity, loquaciousness, talkativeness, garrulity, multiloquence, much speaking, jaw, gabble, jabber, chatter, prate, prattle, cackle, clack, twaddle, twattle, rattle, caquet, caquetterie, blabber, bavardage, bibble-babble, gibble-gabble, small talk, fluency, flippancy, volubility, flowing, tongue, flow of words, flux de bouche, flux de mots, copia verborum, cacoethes loquendi, furor loquendi, verbosity, gift of the gab, talker, chatterer, chatterbox, babbler, rattle, ranter, sermonizer, proser, driveler, blatherskite, gossip, magpie, jay, parrot, poll, Babel, moulin a paroles, loquacious, talkative, garrulous, linguacious, multiloquous, largiloquent, chattering, chatty, declamatory, open-mouthed, fluent, voluble, glib, flippant, long tongued, long winded, trippingly on the tongue, glibly, off the reel, the tongue running fast, the tongue running loose, the tongue running on wheels, all talk and no cider, foul whisperings are abroad, what a spendthrift is he of his tongue!.Imitation
N imitation, copying, transcription, repetition, duplication, reduplication, quotation, reproduction, mimeograph, xerox, facsimile, reprint, offprint, mockery, mimicry, simulation, impersonation, personation, representation, semblance, copy, assimilation, paraphrase, parody, take-off, lampoon, caricature, plagiarism, forgery, counterfeit, celluloid, imitator, echo, cuckoo, parrot, ape, monkey, mocking bird, mime, copyist, copycat, plagiarist, pirate, imitated, mock, mimic, modelled after, molded on, paraphrastic, literal, imitative, secondhand, imitable, aping, apish, mimicking, literally, to the letter, verbatim, literatim, sic, totidem verbis, word for word, mot a mot, exactly, precisely, like master like man, like - but oh! how different!, genius borrows nobly, pursuing echoes calling 'mong the rocks, quotation confesses inferiority, Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.For further exploring for "parrot" in Webster Dictionary Online