0 present participle of parrot
1 to repeat exactly what someone else says, without understanding it or thinking about its meaning:
Although it is not possible to know how deep children's processing was in our experiment, their errors show that they were not parroting the input.
A parroting effect has been noted in speech interfaces in which the user will tend to respond using the same words that occur in the prompt.
It is not a question of us parroting other peoples' concerns.
Only one sits on the sidelines, parroting "constructive engagement", but failing to come up with clear parameters and policies for the future.
She has nothing to say on these issues, except to go round the world parroting about the need to protect national sovereignty.
All they got was the usual complacent, superficial parroting of the empty nonsense about commitments and guarantees.
Labour would earn more respect if it spelt out in detail what it expected the electorate to accept: parroting slogans is not enough.
They are merely parroting the cries for yet another tax burden on people who can ill afford to pay.
