parrotling

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From parrot +‎ -ling.

Noun[edit]

parrotling (plural parrotlings)

  1. (rare) A small or immature parrot
    • 1903 April 11, F[lora] A[nnie] Steel, “The Beasts That Perish”, in The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, and Art, volume 95, number 2,476, London, page 449, column 1:
      I can fancy myself there now, the sun and the sweetness of the orange blossom bewildering in their purity, the green parrotlings in a nest behind a carven god simmering away contentedly like half a dozen kettles until with an express train shriek a red and green parent whizzed past me bearing a dinner for one, […]
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