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perokito

perokito is the obsolete form of parakeet.

Meaning of parakeet

Noun

parakeet (plural parakeets)

  1. Any of various species of small parrot primarily of tropical regions.
    • we had loved them for our pastimes, as we do apes, monkies, or perokitoes, and not as man.1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 8, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC

Forms of perokito

pluralperokitoes

Questions about perokito

What is perokito the obsolete form of?
Perokito is the obsolete form of parakeet.

Words near perokito in the dictionary

  1. perogs
  2. perogue
  3. perogues
  4. perogun
  5. perogy
  6. perokito
  7. perokitoes
  8. peromelia
  9. peromyscine
  10. peromyscines
  11. Peron

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Adapted from Wiktionary: perokito (page history and authors); parakeet (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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