Word.ws English Dictionary

Polly want a cracker

Polly want a cracker phrase: a line stereotypically repeated by parrots that have been trained to talk.

Phrase

Polly want a cracker

  1. A line stereotypically repeated by parrots that have been trained to talk.

Origin of Polly want a cracker

Unknown, first attested in The John-Donkey (July 29, 1848, page 47), popularized by the National Biscuit Company with the slogan Polly wants a cracker?

Questions about Polly want a cracker

What does Polly want a cracker mean?
Polly want a cracker means a line stereotypically repeated by parrots that have been trained to talk.
What part of speech is Polly want a cracker?
Polly want a cracker is a phrase.

Words near Polly want a cracker in the dictionary

  1. polluxite
  2. polly
  3. Polly Anna
  4. Polly Crockett hat
  5. Polly Crockett hats
  6. Polly want a cracker
  7. Polly-Anna
  8. polly-fox
  9. polly-foxed
  10. polly-foxes
  11. polly-foxing

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Polly want a cracker (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Polly want a cracker.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/polly_want_a_cracker. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.