Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various small slender parrots, usually having long tapering tails and often kept as pets.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
parrakeet .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) Same as
parrakeet .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of numerous small slender long-tailed parrots
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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April 2, 2009 3: 07 PM great interview ... and yes parakeet is a dakudaji blogger!
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April 5, 2009 10: 49 PM wonderful interview. .parakeet is such a force, you can feel it in her answers. bumight
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You did a very good job putting them together and the parakeet is a nice touch too ;
Line Drawing James Gurney 2009
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And I KNEW the parakeet was the one writing the posts!
1000th Post James Gurney 2009
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Generally they've been relatively good about staying inside, but I guess this time, the call of the parakeet was a bit too much.
A post of vitally unimportant stuff: mariness 2006
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The parakeet is a lovely sight, with its powdery smooth green plumage and its arrow-straight flight and general liveliness - but it competes too well with native birds, and as with the Canada goose, where the parakeets move in, the locals tend to move out.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Another is the ring-necked parakeet, which is spreading so fast that the government has just allowed landowners to shoot them without a licence.
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Al Sharpton said Kirsten Gillibrand should flip Harold Ford's criticism about her being a "parakeet" for Chuck Schumer and Senate leadership.
'Is Mr. Ford Saying He Would Not Be Voting With President Obama?' 2010
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Yup, "parakeet" is probably from a diminutive of Pierre.
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On Monday, he called her a "parakeet" who takes instructions from the party leadership.
NBC3 - Local News 2010
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