英语词汇“pigeon”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

pigeon1

/ˈpɪdʒɪn

/ /ˈpɪdʒ(ə)n

noun

1A stout seed- or fruit-eating bird with a small head, short legs, and a cooing voice, typically having grey and white plumage. See also dove¹ (sense 1).

Family Columbidae: numerous genera and species.

Their short breeding cycle allows pigeons and doves to have more broods to compensate for their small brood sizes and relatively high rates of predation....

This diet mimics the composition of crop milk in white Carneaux pigeons, Columbia livia, and the diet of older squabs.
After lunch, we walked round the spit and swam in a sea like silk, with only a sea eagle and a few white Torres Strait pigeons for company.

1.1 (also domestic or feral pigeon) A pigeon descended from the wild rock dove, kept for racing, showing, and carrying messages, and common as a feral bird in towns.Until recently, winter nesting in British birds has been very rare beyond a handful of species that include the wood pigeon, feral pigeon, and collared dove....

Descended from wild rock doves, homing pigeons can locate their lofts, or roosts, even when released several thousand miles away.
Its been estimated by some pigeon fanciers that there as many as 500 wild pigeons in the town centre.

2 informal, chiefly North American A gullible person, especially someone swindled in gambling or the victim of a confidence trick.At the end of the day, one has to admit that most would-be megastars, the pigeons in this behavioral con game, are complicit in their deception....

The pigeon is the gaming commission who doesn't recognize the gambler's need for excitement and agrees to bar them from casinos.
In Trafalgar Square, he meets up with Bugsy, a fat, smelly, cheeky con-man pigeon, who ends up volunteering for the war effort by mistake.

3 military slang An aircraft from one’s own side.

Derivatives

pigeonry

noun (plural pigeonries)

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French pijon, denoting a young bird, especially a young dove, from an alteration of late Latin pipio(n-), 'young cheeping bird' of imitative origin.

The name of the pigeon comes from French pijon, a word for a young bird, especially a young dove. It is an alteration of Latin pipio, which imitates the piping or cheeping of a nestling. The phrase to be someone's pigeon, ‘to be someone's concern or responsibility’, has nothing to do with homing pigeons going astray, or indeed anything involving the bird: pigeon here is a respelling of pidgin and thus means ‘business’. The pigeon's distinctive walk gave us pigeon-toed, meaning ‘having the toes or feet turned inwards’, and pigeon-chested or pigeon-breasted, ‘having a protruding chest’, from the end of the 18th century.

Rhymes

pigeon2

/ˈpɪdʒɪn

noun

1 archaic spelling of pidgin.They spent two weeks there practising the local language - a pigeon English called Krio - and lazing on the beaches....

To make it even better, this guy only spoke French and Paul spoke pigeon French.
People who first spoke pigeon languages (e.g. Creole) which were just a combination of other languages had kids that incorporated grammar and usage into the language that the parents never used or taught.

2 (one's pigeon) British informal A person’s particular responsibility or business: Hermia will have to tell them first, it’s her pigeon...

"He'll know what to do, and in any case, it's his pigeon to whack out justice."
Whatever has been ages ago - it's not my pigeon.

单词	pigeon
释义	pigeon1 /ˈpɪdʒɪn / /ˈpɪdʒ(ə)n / noun 1A stout seed- or fruit-eating bird with a small head, short legs, and a cooing voice, typically having grey and white plumage. See also dove¹ (sense 1). Family Columbidae: numerous genera and species. Their short breeding cycle allows pigeons and doves to have more broods to compensate for their small brood sizes and relatively high rates of predation.... This diet mimics the composition of crop milk in white Carneaux pigeons, Columbia livia, and the diet of older squabs. After lunch, we walked round the spit and swam in a sea like silk, with only a sea eagle and a few white Torres Strait pigeons for company. 1.1 (also domestic or feral pigeon) A pigeon descended from the wild rock dove, kept for racing, showing, and carrying messages, and common as a feral bird in towns.Until recently, winter nesting in British birds has been very rare beyond a handful of species that include the wood pigeon, feral pigeon, and collared dove.... Descended from wild rock doves, homing pigeons can locate their lofts, or roosts, even when released several thousand miles away. Its been estimated by some pigeon fanciers that there as many as 500 wild pigeons in the town centre. 2 informal, chiefly North American A gullible person, especially someone swindled in gambling or the victim of a confidence trick.At the end of the day, one has to admit that most would-be megastars, the pigeons in this behavioral con game, are complicit in their deception.... The pigeon is the gaming commission who doesn't recognize the gambler's need for excitement and agrees to bar them from casinos. In Trafalgar Square, he meets up with Bugsy, a fat, smelly, cheeky con-man pigeon, who ends up volunteering for the war effort by mistake. 3 military slang An aircraft from one’s own side. Derivatives pigeonry noun (plural pigeonries) Origin Late Middle English: from Old French pijon, denoting a young bird, especially a young dove, from an alteration of late Latin pipio(n-), 'young cheeping bird' of imitative origin. The name of the pigeon comes from French pijon, a word for a young bird, especially a young dove. It is an alteration of Latin pipio, which imitates the piping or cheeping of a nestling. The phrase to be someone's pigeon, ‘to be someone's concern or responsibility’, has nothing to do with homing pigeons going astray, or indeed anything involving the bird: pigeon here is a respelling of pidgin and thus means ‘business’. The pigeon's distinctive walk gave us pigeon-toed, meaning ‘having the toes or feet turned inwards’, and pigeon-chested or pigeon-breasted, ‘having a protruding chest’, from the end of the 18th century. Rhymes pidgin, smidgen, wigeon pigeon2 /ˈpɪdʒɪn / noun 1 archaic spelling of pidgin.They spent two weeks there practising the local language - a pigeon English called Krio - and lazing on the beaches.... To make it even better, this guy only spoke French and Paul spoke pigeon French. People who first spoke pigeon languages (e.g. Creole) which were just a combination of other languages had kids that incorporated grammar and usage into the language that the parents never used or taught. 2 (one's pigeon) British informal A person’s particular responsibility or business: Hermia will have to tell them first, it’s her pigeon... "He'll know what to do, and in any case, it's his pigeon to whack out justice." Whatever has been ages ago - it's not my pigeon.
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