Polly put the f*****g kettle on.

A parrot was reportedly taken into custody after it kept swearing at an 85-year-old woman.

Janabai Sakharkar, from Maharashtra, India, claimed that Hariyal the parrot turned the air blue every time she passed the house of stepson Suresh.

But while police were said to have understandably found the whole thing hilarious, there was said to be a slightly more serious reason as to why the parrot was swearing in the first place.

Janabai and her stepson were reportedly locked in a property dispute, and police believe that the parrot may have started hurling abuse at Janabai after imitating Suresh.

And while the parrot didn’t show off its colourful vocabulary to police, officers apparently arrested the bird, before handing him over to the Forest Department to rid him of his potty-mouthed ways.