parrotling

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noun

A small or immature parrot

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Meanings

nounparrotling (plural parrotlings)

plural parrotlings

  1. rareA small or immature parrot
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    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, […]

    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

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
parrotlet

Origin

From parrot + -ling.

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parrotling. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/parrotling

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“parrotling.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/parrotling. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “parrotling,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/parrotling.

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