Definitions for parrots

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parrots par·rot

Spelling: [par-uh t]

IPA: /ˈpær ət/

Parrots is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 207 anagrams from letters in parrots (aoprrst).

Definitions for parrots

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 parrots

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 parrots

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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