| 单词 | stool-pigeon |
| 释义 | > as lemmasstool-pigeon stool-pigeon n. (a) U.S. a pigeon fastened to a stool as a decoy; chiefly figurative of a person employed, especially by gamblers, as a decoy; (b) a police informer. ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > informing on or against > [noun] > informer > police informer setter1630 nose1789 mouchard1802 rat1818 stool-pigeon1830 knark1851 police informer1851 nark1859 telegraph1864 copper1885 sarbut1897 Noah's Ark1898 stool1906 snout1910 finger1914 policeman1923 stoolie1924 shelf1926 grass1929 grasshopper1937 grasser1950 stukach1969 supergrass1975 the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > defrauder or swindler > [noun] > decoy stale1526 barnardc1555 barnacle1591 setter1591 tumbler1602 circling boy1631 moon-curser1673 sweetener1699 stool1825 stool-pigeon1830 bonnet1831 buttoner1839 button1851 steerer1873 plugger1886 shillaber1913 shill1916 society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > [noun] > decoy, etc. woodpecker1608 puff1722 flasher1731 squib1731 stool-pigeon1830 roper1840 shill1916 stick1926 1830 Workingman's Gaz. (Woodstock, Vermont) 1 Dec. 79/2 A wag who keeps an oyster cellar in Newark advertises, among other things, ‘wildbirds domesticated and stool pigeons trained to catch voters for the next Presidency—warranted to suit either party.’ 1836 W. Irving Astoria I. 137 One man..was used like a ‘stool pigeon’, to decoy the others. 1844 J. H. Greene Espos. Gambling (ed. 2) 158 Those secret partners, by gamblers, are termed ropers, or stool-pigeons: their business is to delude the inexperienced into their dens of iniquity. 1845 Yankee (Boston) 9 Aug. 2/6 If this business is so profitable to thieves, how much do those [sc. police officers] make out of it who encourage the stool pigeon business? 1849 Bankers' Mag. Aug. 89 The senior high constable of Philadelphia..recollected that Harry White..who he had been lately using as a ‘stool pigeon’, or secret informer, had informed him..that ‘a big thing’ was coming off shortly. 1850 Congress. Globe 18 July 1403/1 Sheltering this aggression, on the part of the United States, behind ‘poor New Mexico’, who is only a stool-pigeon. 1859 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2) 452 Stool-pigeon, a decoy robber, in the pay of the police, who brings his associates into a trap laid for them. 1865 Pall Mall Gaz. 13 Nov. 2 The harrowing narrative of ‘Antilles’ may be after all only an ingenious ‘stool-pigeon,’ concocted for the purpose of terrifying the Republican party. 1906 L. H. Vincent Amer. Lit. Masters 46 I am not going to be made a stool-pigeon to attract birds of passage that may be flying about. 1910 E. A. Walcott Open Door 134 Rafferty..assured the chief that he would pass word to certain stool-pigeons to keep their eyes and ears open for trace of the missing canvas. 1930 Times Lit. Suppl. 4 Dec. 1047/3 Occasionally a masterful rogue arose who shot a few people as ‘stool-pigeons’, even though they had never imparted any information to the police. 1974 J. Thomson Long Revenge ii. 23 A stool pigeon planted in a local Gestapo prison to eavesdrop on the detainees. < as lemmas |
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