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Pet named Polly, perhaps
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parakeet
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Word definitions for parakeet in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1620s, from Spanish perquito ; earlier English form parroket (1580s) is from Middle French paroquet , from Old French paroquet (14c.), which is said by etymologists of French to be from Italian parrocchetto , literally "little priest," from parroco "parish ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Meanwhile the colt galloped back and forth behind him, and the parakeets squawked. ▪ She came with a parakeet in a cage. ▪ She turned slowly in the middle of the living room, like a gyrating parakeet . ▪ The parakeets were at ...
Usage examples of parakeet.
Her tattered reputation as a warrioress having been further diminished by mistaking a parakeet for a mortal threat, Jilly retreated from this moment of humiliation.
Sparrow and the Emerald Parakeet, Mary having named both public houses, the one after English birds and the other after her new land, for her great good-fortune birds, her beloved rosellas.
I read that having a parakeet helps nervousness, keeps your blood pure, and treats brain anxiety.
We drove very slowly for about a minute and then a red light on the dashboard blinked and there was a manic chirping like a parakeet on speed.
My own mother sat alone on Bobolink Drive all day, talking to her parakeet, Petey, and worrying about dead children.
Just then a parakeet squawked, making my brother jump, and he closed the box, tucked it under his arm, and carried it downstairs to Desdemona.
Ben, that a young girl has to take out her virginity on something, a pet parakeet, a car - though most of the time on herself.
I entered on tiptoes and lifted up here and looked in there, dainty as a parakeet, covering my tracks before I even made any tracks.
Diarist and Parakeet lost interest in the conversation and hope in the matter of carrots, and one by one withdrew into the boxes.
Spike departed to meet Abu for tennis, whistling like a parakeet in a marijuana field, and she fell back asleep to dream of whitecapped waves.
We sat outside on a terrace that offered a wonderful view of the valley and listened to chipmunks quarrel with parakeets while we sipped tea.
It was not quite a twittering nor a whir, and it was not unlike a pet shop when the bell tinkles as you step in and a chorus of parakeets and doves starts up in coos and light shrieks.
Ten thousand men came rushing down to the stormy shore carrying bolts of drape material, cages full of parakeets, tomato- and tangerine-colored sport coats, and lime-colored shoes.
Mary always waits at sunset to see the parakeets, her talismanic rosellas, fly over on their way to roost in the trees higher up the mountain.
She declares ever after that the little emerald green parakeets changed their path of flight and were never again seen during her time in the big house.