poll parrot
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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“No, I’m sartain it wouldn’t do; no, not even if you could talk like a poll parrot.”
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“May have been a poll parrot,” said Bart.
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Then the monkey looked, when the wolf had his head turned to one side, and Jumpo saw that the green thing was a big poll parrot.
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Sylvie, old boy, he blinks at me through his glasses, like a poll parrot sizin' up a firecracker that little Jimmy wants to hand him.
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Do you know I just got kicked by a poll parrot?
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