poll parrot
poll parrot noun: a tame parrot.
Noun
poll parrot (plural poll parrots)
- A tame parrot.
- Old Marster had a poll parrot, and this poll parrot would watch Jim and tell his Marster what Jim would do.2015, Richard M. Dorson, American Negro Folktales, page 121
- A talkative, gossiping woman.
- It was on the tip of her tongue to call her a poll parrot (Mrs. Kingdom had said nothing but 'dear me' repeatedly and freezingly). She was a free-spoken woman as a rule, and it was terrible to have to sit still and waste all the good things she could have said to her […]1902, Country Life, volume 11, page 636
Verb
poll parrot (third-person singular simple present poll parrots, present participle poll parroting, simple past and past participle poll parroted)
- To speak, repeat, or imitate something like a parrot.
- To chatter like a parrot.
- 'What are you Poll Parroting at now? Ain't you got nothing to do but fold your arms and stand a Poll Parroting all night?'1864 May – 1865 November, Charles Dickens, chapter XII, in Our Mutual Friend. […], volume II, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1865, →OCLC
Forms of poll parrot
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | poll parrots |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | poll parrots |
| present participle | poll parroting |
| past participle | poll parroted |
| past | poll parroted |
Questions about poll parrot
- What does poll parrot mean?
- Poll parrot means a tame parrot.
- What part of speech is poll parrot?
- Poll parrot can be a noun or a verb.
- What is the plural of poll parrot?
- The plural of poll parrot is poll parrots.
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