poll parrot

plural poll parrots

1. datedA tame parrot.

   Old Marster had a poll parrot, and this poll parrot would watch Jim and tell his Marster what Jim would do.

   2015, Richard M. Dorson, American Negro Folktales, page 121

2. archaicslangA talkative, gossiping woman.

   It was on the tip of her tongue to call her a poll parrot (Mrs. Kingdom had said nothing but 'dear me' repeatedly and freezingly). She was a free-spoken woman as a rule, and it was terrible to have to sit still and waste all the good things she could have said to her […]

   1902, Country Life, volume 11, page 636

present singular third person poll parrots · participle present poll parroting · participle past poll parroted · past poll parroted

1. datedtransitiveTo speak, repeat, or imitate something like a parrot.
2. datedintransitiveTo chatter like a parrot.

   'What are you Poll Parroting at now? Ain't you got nothing to do but fold your arms and stand a Poll Parroting all night?'

   1864 May – 1865 November, Charles Dickens, chapter XII, in Our Mutual Friend. […], volume II, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1865, →OCLC