Definitions for parrot

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parrot par·rot

Spelling: [par-uh t]

IPA: /ˈpær ət/

Parrot is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 94 anagrams from letters in parrot (aoprrt).

Definitions for parrot

noun

1. any of numerous hook-billed, often brilliantly colored birds of the order Psittaciformes, as the cockatoo, lory, macaw, or parakeet, having the ability to mimic speech and often kept as pets.
2. a person who, without thought or understanding, merely repeats the words or imitates the actions of another.

verb (used with object)

1. to repeat or imitate without thought or understanding.
2. to teach to repeat or imitate in such a fashion.

Origin of parrot

1515-25; apparently Middle French P(i)errot, diminutive of Pierre (see parakeet), though a comparable sense of the French word is not known until the 18th century

Examples for parrot

She was sorry to part with her parrot, but after all it was only a bird.

In one of them there stood a golden cage, and in it was a parrot.

There's the parrot, wings wrapped around himself, shivering.

Oliver bares his soul as he highlights comments in which he is compared to a parrot and knocked for mocking an unremarkable soda.

Polly was prattling like a parrot, but Glory was silent and almost sad.

This feller's got what ailed the parrot—he talks too darn much.

But I cal'late there was a parrot and monkey time among the help from then on.

With four other children, two more dogs, a parrot, and a cat back on the island, I was desperate to get home.

Rudoren is a journalist for the New York Times and has a responsibility to evaluate rather than parrot.

Finally the guy gets fed up and throws the parrot in the freezer to punish him.