1822 New Monthly Mag. 5 45 Terence reckons it, together with cat's eyes and a parrotty nose, as an insurmountable objection to a proposed bride.

1900 E. R. Scidmore China xxvii. 432 Fluent, parroty, English-speaking native guides besiege one at the steamer.

1994 New Yorker 24 Oct. 109/2 That tag belongs to Brianne, whose parroty voice and actressy manner are obvious irritants to the others.

2002 Times (Nexis) 16 Mar. (Features section) Among the usual soup-encrusted bespoke suits and the tweed, there are pockets of bright colour, from which rise parroty squawking and laughter.

1886 Daily News 12 Oct. 5/2 Leonard and the chairs have had what Leonard's gay countrymen call ‘a parroty time’, doubtless with reference to an..anecdote of a monkey and a parrot.

1890 A. Lang Old Friends (1892) 158 You will have a parroty time.

1931 M. Allingham Look to Lady iii. 42 However you look at it, I think you and your family are in for a pretty parroty time.

1920 L. W. Hinxman et al. Econ. Geol. Central Coalfield Scotl.: Area IV iii. 37 With the exception of the Campsie area—where it [sc. Lillie's Shale Coal] is an inferior parroty shale—it is only in the Paisley–Johnstone district that it becomes a commercial subject as a source of oil.

1934 Econ. Geol. Fife Coalfields II. 93 The blaes immediately overlying the coal is parroty and contains iron pyrites.