poll-parrot

She had by this time become an expert flier, and being proud to resemble a bird, she dressed herself in flowing robes of as many colors as a poll-parrot could boast.

Queen Zixi of Ix Baum, L. Frank 1971

"No, but she has got a poll-parrot, as I told you, Thad!" observed

The Chums of Scranton High Hugh Morgan's Uphill Fight Donald Ferguson

The profane poll-parrot is not a more startling witness to the character of its surroundings than the "terrible infant," whose rude snatchings, pert contradictions, and glib slang phrases are sure to be most effectively "shown off" in the presence of visitors.

Etiquette Agnes H. Morton

Fortunately, the train at this juncture stopped at a way station, and the yellow moustache, poll-parrot scarf, and kid gloves got out, first bowing very politely to their late companion.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

He wore a heavy yellow watchguard, yellow kid gloves, and a moustache to match, patent-leather boots, a poll-parrot scarf, and a brilliant breast-pin.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

'Allow me, gentlemen,' said Mr. Archibald Slinkey, a red-faced, elderly man, with a nose like the beak of a poll-parrot -- 'to propose the health of my excellent and highly esteemed friend, Frank Sydney.

City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston George Thompson

The Bolsheviki of the present not only poll-parrot the balderdash of the French demagogues of 1789; they also mouth what was gospel to every _bête blonde_ in the Teutonic forest of the fifth century.

The American Credo A Contribution Toward the Interpretation of the National Mind George Jean Nathan 1920

'Round here I've learned to be like a barroom poll-parrot, ready to answer to most everything.

Cap'n Warren's Wards Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

When silver is placed on an equality with all other commodities; when the people are permitted to freely employ it as they please, then will the natural law of supply and demand apply to the white metal, and New York editors cease to jabber financial nonsense with the stupid persistence of a poll-parrot praising its own personal pulchritude.

The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10 1905

It all ended by my repeating in a stupid, poll-parrot fashion:

A Virginia girl in the Civil War, 1861-1865, by ed. Myrta Lockett Avary 1903