paraquito
English
Noun
paraquito (plural paraquitos or paraquitoes)
- Alternative form of parakeet.
- c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii], page 55:
- Come, come, you Paraquito, anſwer me directly vnto this queſtion, that I ſhall aske.