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parrot

par·rot [ párrət ]


noun  (plural par·rots)
Definition:
 
1. brightly colored tropical bird: a bird with a strong hooked beak and variously colored, often brilliant plumage, some species of which can mimic speech. Native to: tropics, subtropics.  Order Psittaciformes.

2. somebody who copies others: a repeater of something that somebody else has said, without thought or understanding



transitive verb  (past and past participle par·rot·ed, present participle par·rot·ing, 3rd person present singular par·rots)
Definition:
 
copy other people: to repeat what somebody else says or writes without having thought about it or understood it

[Early 16th century. Probably < French dialect Perrot "little Pierre"]

par·rot·er noun
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