or parroteer, subs. (colloquial).—A talkative person, esp. one given to mechanical repetition. Whence, as verb = to chatter; to repeat mechanically. Also PARROTRY = servile imitation; PARROT-LAWYER = a solicitor obsequious to a client’s Yea and Nay.

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  1612.  CHAPMAN, The Widow’s Tears, v. 5. If you PARROT to me long—go to.

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  d. 1655.  T. ADAMS, Works, I. 16. They have their bandogs, corrupt solicitors, PARROT LAWYERS that are their properties and mere trunks.

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  d. 1859.  DE QUINCEY, Style, iii. Passages of great musical effect … vulgarised by too perpetual a PARROTING.

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  1872.  F. HALL, Recent Exemplifications of False Philology, 31. The verb experience is, to Mr. White, PARROTING Dean Alford, altogether objectionable.

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  1873.  J. S. MILL, Autobiography, 31. Mere PARROTEERS of what they have learnt.

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  See ALMOND.

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