parakeet• The housekeeper, Mary McLellan, served Dubonnet, Margarett opened the aviary, and a parakeetflew to her shoulder.• She came with a parakeet in a cage.• She turned slowly in the middle of the living room, like a gyratingparakeet.• Meanwhile the coltgalloped back and forth behind him, and the parakeetssquawked.• There was nobody in the shop but the parakeet.• The parakeets were at it again, their squawks rising like shiftingclouds.• The sunglasses, decorated with parakeets, are from a New York novelty shop.
Originparakeet
(1500-1600)Spanishperiquito, from Old Frenchperroquet; → PARROT1