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say it: PER-uht
parrot is a noun and verb meaning "usually brightly colored zygodactyl tropical birds with short hooked beaks and the ability to mimic sounds". It is pronounced /ˈpɛɹət/ — PER-uht. It carries 3 recorded senses.
a copycat who does not understand the words or acts being imitated
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for parrot come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.