parrot
noun
any of numerous hook-billed, often brilliantly colored birds of the order Psittaciformes, as the cockatoo, lory, macaw, or parakeet, having the ability to mimic speech and often kept as pets.
parrotry
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a word derived from
parrot.
Example Sentences
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She was the first of her sort to confront me in England with the question whether her very intelligent comment was conscious knowledge, or mere parrotry.
From London Films by William Dean Howells
Let conversation displace much that passes current under the name of recitation; mostly sound and parrotry, a repeating by rote not by heart, unmeaning sounds from the memory and no more.
From Transcendentalism in New England A History by Octavius Brooks Frothingham
Surely, if Christian charity did not preclude these charges, the shame of convicted parrotry ought to prevent a man from repeating and republishing them.
From Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4. by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
