pigeon
noun /ˈpɪdʒɪn/
/ˈpɪdʒɪn/
Idioms - a fat grey and white bird with short legs. Pigeons are common in cities and also live in woods and fields where people shoot them for sport or food.
- the sound of pigeons cooing
- A pigeon strutted along the roof, cooing rhythmically.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- carrier
- homing
- racing
- …
- flock
- fly
- nest
- roost
- …
- droppings
- shit
- coop
- …
Word Originlate 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.
Idioms
be somebody’s pigeon
- (British English, old-fashioned) to be somebody’s responsibility or business
put/set the cat among the pigeons
- (British English) to say or do something that is likely to cause trouble
- Then she told them she was dropping out of college. That really set the cat among the pigeons.