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parrotling

parrotling noun: a small or immature parrot.

Noun

parrotling (plural parrotlings)

  1. (rare) A small or immature parrot
    • I can fancy myself there now, the sun and the sweetness of the orange blossom bewildering in their purity, the green parrotlings in a nest behind a carven god simmering away contentedly like half a dozen kettles until with an express train shriek a red and green parent whizzed past me bearing a...1903 April 11, F[lora] A[nnie] Steel, “The Beasts That Perish”, in The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, and Art, volume 95, number 2,476, London, page 449, column 1

Forms of parrotling

pluralparrotlings

Origin of parrotling

From parrot + -ling.

Questions about parrotling

What does parrotling mean?
Parrotling means a small or immature parrot.
What part of speech is parrotling?
Parrotling is a noun.
What is the plural of parrotling?
The plural of parrotling is parrotlings.

Words near parrotling in the dictionary

  1. parrotizing
  2. parrotless
  3. parrotlet
  4. parrotlets
  5. parrotlike
  6. parrotling
  7. parrotlings
  8. parrotries
  9. parrotry
  10. parrots
  11. Parrott

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