poll parrot

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poll parrot

noun poll parrots

  1. dated A tame parrot. Old Marster had a poll parrot, and this poll parrot would watch Jim and tell his Marster what Jim would do.
  2. archaic, slang A talkative, gossiping woman. 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 poll parrots · poll parroting · poll parroted

  1. dated, transitive To speak, repeat, or imitate something like a parrot.
  2. dated, intransitive To chatter like a parrot. '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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@misc{poll_parrot_2026,
  title = {poll parrot},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/poll%20parrot},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}