parrotry
parrotry noun: thoughtless imitation or repetition of someone else's words or sayings; mindless repetition.
Noun
parrotry (usually uncountable, plural parrotries)
- Thoughtless imitation or repetition of someone else's words or sayings; mindless repetition.
- This sentiment is so lugged into every debate, that it has degenerated into mere parrotry.1796, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Watchman, number 3
- The economic and political dependence of this African neo-colonial bourgeoisie is reflected in its culture of apemanship and parrotry conforced on a restive population through police boots, barbed wire, a gowned clergy and judiciary […].1986, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Decolonising the Mind, Heinemann, published 2005, page 2
Forms of parrotry
| plural | parrotries |
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Origin of parrotry
From parrot + -ry.
Questions about parrotry
- What does parrotry mean?
- Parrotry means thoughtless imitation or repetition of someone else's words or sayings; mindless repetition.
- What part of speech is parrotry?
- Parrotry is a noun.
- What is the plural of parrotry?
- The plural of parrotry is parrotries.
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