Crossword clues for parakeet
parakeet
- A libertine, stabbing domesticated bird
- Talking bird
- Popular pet
- Avian mimic
- Pet bird, often
- Cage bird
- Popular pet bird
- Take pear (anag) — bird
- Pet store bird
- Pet named Polly, perhaps
- One is in the Guinness Book for its 1,728-word vocabulary
- Colorful mimic in a cage
- Bird that can talk
- Bird popular as a pet
- Talkative one
- One skilled at mimicry
- One known for talking back?
- Any of numerous small slender long-tailed parrots
- Budgerigar, for one
- Caged mimic
- Pet that can talk
- Talkative pet
- Small parrot often kept as a pet
- A flashy bird and a libertine going into caress
- A playboy in love - small pecker?
- A libertine favourite caged bird
- Bird ready for fluent repetition after drinking firewater
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Parakeet \Par"a*keet`\, n. (Zo["o]l.) Same as Parrakeet.
Parrakeet \Par"ra*keet`\ (p[a^]r"r[.a]*k[=e]t`), Parakeet \Par"a*keet`\, n. [See Paroquet.] (Zo["o]l.) Any one of numerous species of small parrots having a graduated tail, which is frequently very long; -- called also paroquet and paraquet.
Note: Many of the Asiatic and Australian species belong to the genus Paleornis; others belong to Polytelis, Platycercus, Psephotus, Euphema, and allied genera. The American parrakeets mostly belong to the genus Conurus, as the Carolina parrakeet ( Conurus Carolinensis).
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 priest," from Church Latin parochus (see parish), or parrucchetto, diminutive of parrucca "peruke, periwig," in reference to the head plumage.\n
\nThe Spanish form, meanwhile, is sometimes said to be a diminutive of Perico, familiar form of Pedro "Peter," and the Old French word is likewise perhaps from or influenced by a diminutive of Pierre "Peter." The relations of the Spanish and Italian forms, and the influence of folk etymology on either or both, are uncertain.
Wiktionary
n. A member of any of the various species of small parrots usually bred in Australia and Africa. (from 16th c.)
WordNet
Wikipedia
Parakeet is an Australian Army mobile battlefield communication system. It was introduced into service in the mid-1990s through project JP65. Parakeet was considered (at the time) advanced military communications. This included secure voice and data trunking services. Project JP2072 has been recently raised to upgrade its sub-systems. It is operated by Royal Australian Corps of Signals (RASIGS) personnel.
Category:Military communications of Australia
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.