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| par·rot [ párrət ] |
noun (plural par·rots) |
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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.
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2. somebody who copies others: a repeater of something that somebody else has said, without thought or understanding
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transitive verb (past and past participle par·rot·ed, present participle par·rot·ing, 3rd person present singular par·rots) |
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copy other people: to repeat what somebody else says or writes without having thought about it or understood it
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| [Early 16th century. Probably < French dialect Perrot "little Pierre"] |
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 par·rot·er noun |
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