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Noun

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poll parrot (plural poll parrots)

  1. (dated) A tame parrot.
    • 2015, Richard M. Dorson, American Negro Folktales, page 121:
      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.
    • 1902, Country Life, volume 11, page 636:
      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

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poll parrot (third-person singular simple present poll parrots, present participle poll parroting, simple past and past participle poll parroted)

  1. (transitive, dated) To speak, repeat, or imitate something like a parrot.
  2. (intransitive, dated) To chatter like a parrot.

References

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  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary