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Definition of Parroty
1. resembling a parrot (a hook-billed tropical bird) [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Parroty
Literary usage of Parroty
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Economic Geology of the Central Coal-field of Scotland, Area VIII. Fast by Robert George Carruthers, Charles Hawber Dinham (1917)
"... Blue-black slightly parroty blaes . .06 Blue blaes . . . . .06 (The coal has
been worked out at the crop, but is known from bores to be a dross* coal 12 ..."
2. The Economic Geology of the Central Coal-field of Scotland, Description of by Charles Thomas Clough, Ernest Masson Anderson, James Simpson Grant Wilson, Robert George Carruthers, Charles Hawker Dinham, Murray Macgregor (1920)
"4 in. to 0 Blaes, with scattered " mussels" . .0 Ironstone rib, with " mussels "
2 in. to 0 parroty blaes, with " mussels " 0 in. to 0 Pale grey blaes, ..."
3. The War with Mexico by Justin Harvey Smith (1919)
"High cheek bones, a prominent chin, thinnish and tightly closed lips, a mop of
parroty hair parted well down on the left, a beard of the same hue under his ..."
4. The Wilson Bulletin by Wilson Ornithological Club, Nebraska Ornithologists' Union, Wilson Ornithological Society (1900)
"... a Nuthatch or a Blue Jay, about filled the bill for that favored afternoon,
as a general thing. The rediculously tame Grosbeaks, parroty Crossbills,, ..."
5. The Wit and Humor of America by Marshall Pinckney Wilder (1911)
"The worst of conversation books is that one acquires a language in such a parroty
way. Now, in my book, the only answer to the question 'How old are you? ..."
6. The Christian Examiner edited by Edward Everett Hale (1869)
"... their respect for correctness of opinion or for mere parroty shibboleths.
'What is this quarrel about?' the community asks, and stays not to get an ..."
7. Birds and Man by William Henry Hudson (1920)
"... with long graceful tails and minute round, parroty heads ; some quietly perched
just above the water, others moving about here and there, ..."
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