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poll parrot en · NOUN
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(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.
2015, Richard M. Dorson, American Negro Folktales, page 121:
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(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 […]
1902, Country Life, volume 11, page 636:
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poll parrot en · VERB
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(dated, transitive) To speak, repeat, or imitate something like a parrot.
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(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?'
1864 May – 1865 November, Charles Dickens, chapter XII, in Our Mutual Friend. […], volume II, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1865, →OCLC:
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