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  • adjective Pertaining to or having the characteristics of a parrot.

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Examples

  • All this in her parroty singsong as Madam Ma sighed.

    Beard 2010

  • I found your blog via the NaBLoPoMo randomizer and am LOVING the parroty fixation and your hardass attitude to cars!

    Contrariness StyleyGeek 2006

  • The public eye is a mean, cold, parroty thing; it loves to see the worst of everything.

    Over the River 2004

  • A stupid ignoramous assumes that the boy should comprehend by intuition all of the whys and wherefores of the parroty lesson recited, because forsooth it is now plain to his comprehension after days, and maybe weeks, of study and secret investigation on his part to master; and so, perhaps, the boy makes a perfect recitation of words as Poll the parrot does, and comprehends about as much of the underlying meaning.

    Recollections and reflections : an auto of half a century and more, 1906

  • THE MAYOR of Breconridge enters, He is clean-shaven, red-faced, light-eyed, about sixty, shrewd, poll-parroty, naturally jovial, dressed with the indefinable wrongness of a burgher; he is followed by his Secretary HARRIS, a man all eyes and cleverness.

    Plays : Fifth Series John Galsworthy 1900

  • THE MAYOR of Breconridge enters, He is clean-shaven, red-faced, light-eyed, about sixty, shrewd, poll-parroty, naturally jovial, dressed with the indefinable wrongness of a burgher; he is followed by his Secretary HARRIS, a man all eyes and cleverness.

    Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900

  • THE MAYOR of Breconridge enters, He is clean-shaven, red-faced, light-eyed, about sixty, shrewd, poll-parroty, naturally jovial, dressed with the indefinable wrongness of a burgher; he is followed by his Secretary HARRIS, a man all eyes and cleverness.

    A Family Man : in three acts John Galsworthy 1900

  • THE MAYOR of Breconridge enters, He is clean-shaven, red-faced, light-eyed, about sixty, shrewd, poll-parroty, naturally jovial, dressed with the indefinable wrongness of a burgher; he is followed by his Secretary HARRIS, a man all eyes and cleverness.

    Complete Plays of John Galsworthy John Galsworthy 1900

  • The worst of conversation books is that one acquires a language in such a parroty way.

    The Wit and Humor of America, Volume I. (of X.) Various 1887

  • Amusingly writing the tweets phonetically in a north-east accent that begs to be read out aloud go on, try it, the account is "one a thim parroty things - yerz kna - Hooz a pretty boy then?"

    WalesOnline - Home WalesOnline 2011

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