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Poll parrot

noun, verb, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    A tame parrot. dated

    "Old Marster had a poll parrot, and this poll parrot would watch Jim and tell his Marster what Jim would do."

  2. 2
    a tame parrot wordnet
  3. 3
    A talkative, gossiping woman. archaic, slang

    "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 […]"

Verb
  1. 1
    To speak, repeat, or imitate something like a parrot. dated, transitive
  2. 2
    To chatter like a parrot. dated, intransitive

    "'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?'"

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