poll-parrotn.
/ˈpɒlˌparət/, U.S. /ˈpɑlˌpɛrət/ = Poll n.3 Also in extended use (cf. parrot n.1 2).
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the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Psittaciformes (parrots, etc.) > [noun] > parrot
popinjaya1387
psittac?a1425
parrota1529
Poll1600
coxcomb bird1734
poll-parrot1768
Polly1826
anthropoglot1828
feather-top1891
psittacine1949
1768 London Mag. 37 310/1 Poll Parrot, Puss, Shugg, and all that generation of little enchanting animals.
1803 G. Colman John Bull iii. ii. 43 Here's two poets, and a Poll parrot, the best image the Jew had over his head, over the mantle-piece.
1851 D. Jerrold St. Giles & St. James (new ed.) iv, in Writings I. 30 You've no more manners than a poll-parrot.
1886 Sat. Rev. 6 Mar. 347/1 Their mania for seeing spies in poll-parrots.
1924 E. Sitwell Sleeping Beauty iv. 24 An old man with a gardener's hat and red poll-parrot nose.
1978 K. Bonfiglioli All Tea in China vii. 98 The women, they were like so many poll-parrots swathed in last year's organdie.
1996 Charleston (W. Va.) Gaz. (Nexis) 9 June 1 c He could talk to the poll parrot on the porch.
Derivatives
ˈpoll-ˌparroty adj. rare = parroty adj.1
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the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Psittaciformes (parrots, etc.) > [adjective]
parroty1822
parrot-like1824
psittaceous1829
poll-parroty1837
psittacine1874
psittacean1890
1837 T. Hood in Comic Ann. 156 A sort of Poll-Parroty bill!
1922 J. Galsworthy Family Man (1923) i. i. 7 (stage direct.) He is..about sixty, shrewd, poll-parroty, naturally jovial, dressed with the indefinable wrongness of a burgher.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
poll-parrotv.
/ˈpɒlˌparət/, U.S. /ˈpɑlˌpɛrət/ 1. intransitive. To chatter like a parrot; to talk incessantly or inconsequentially, to prattle. Also: to repeat words or phrases without apparent understanding or thought. Cf. parrot v. 1.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > imitate [verb (intransitive)] > slavishly or mechanically
slave1589
parrot1596
parrotize1647
poll-parrot1865
the mind > language > speech > repetition > repeat [verb (intransitive)] > mechanically
chimec1405
pattera1425
parrot1596
parrotize1647
pitter1805
poll-parrot1865
1865 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend I. ii. xii. 271 What are you Poll Parroting at now? Ain't you got nothing to do but..stand a Poll Parroting all night?
2002 Washington Post (Nexis) 22 Jan. c1 He's not just poll-parroting..he has some abstraction abilities.
2.
a. transitive. To talk repetitively or without pause to (a person). Also (with away): to spend (time) in idle or repetitive talk. rare.
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the mind > language > speech > repetition > repeat [verb (transitive)] > rapidly mechanically
pitter-patterc1500
patter1531
pittle-pattle1549
rote?1606
parrot1640
cuckoo1648
chime1697
thrum1710
chant1812
poll-parrot1865
1865 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend I. ii. xii. 272 I am willing to be silent for the purpose of hearing. But don't Poll Parrot me.
1956 A. Wilson Anglo-Saxon Attitudes ii. iii. 365 Gerald in his new mood thought only he shouldn't have poll-parroted his life away in humbug and hot air.
b. transitive. = parrot v. 2.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > imitate [verb (transitive)] > imitate slavishly or parrot
parrot1640
pie1657
poll-parrot1868
copycat1932
parrotize1957
1868 St. Joseph (Mich.) Herald 29 Feb. 1/1 This cry is Poll-Parroted of course from the bond-holders themselves, by the radical press who are their suppliant tools.
1923 H. L. Mencken in Smart Set June 140 Simply poll-parroting..Matthew Arnold, Johann Wolfgang Goethe and all the other old masters.
1939 Sunday Jrnl. & Star (Lincoln, Nebraska) 2 Apr. e2 The waitress poll-parroted her line: ‘You can have any kind of short order’.
2002 Korean Times (Nexis) 6 Sept. Lee displayed a strict stand against the North, even inviting criticism that he poll-parroted the hawkish approach of the U.S.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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