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A pigeon is the grey bird you see on city streets and park benches, with a small head, short legs, and a soft, round body. The neck often shows a little green or purple shine in the light. People also keep white ones, and they often call those doves — though actually pigeon and dove are names for the same kind of bird. English just likes dove for the pretty, peaceful picture and pigeon for the ones eating scraps on the pavement. In Taiwan you meet them on temple roofs, in parks, and in pigeon racing, which is a real hobby here. The word is ordinary, not fancy. An older native English word for this bird was dove; pigeon came in later.
組成Not a compound. The name copies the bird's chirp: Latin pīpiāre (to chirp) → Late Latin pīpiōnem (a chirping bird) → Old French pyjon → Middle English pygeoun → English pigeon. It partly took the place of the older native word dove.
同家族的字
- pigeonholesame pigeon: the little boxes were like the holes pigeons nest in
- pigeon-toedsame pigeon, used for the way the bird's feet turn in
- pigeon-chestedsame pigeon, used for a chest that sticks out like the bird's breast
原始詞典資料14 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Pigeonname
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A surname.
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pigeonnoun詞源 1/ˈpɪ.dʒɪn/
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One of several birds of the family Columbidae within the order Columbiformes.
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The meat from this bird.
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informalA person who is a target or victim of a confidence game.
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governmentpoliticsA pacifist, appeaser, an isolationist, a dove.
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A person hired to transport film footage out of a region where transport options are limited.
- Kalb rushed to the airport and found a "pigeon" to take out the film: an American woman headed for London.
- At this point, all the commercial airports in Pakistan were closed. The only way to get film out was over land. John promptly hired me to be what was then known in the business as a "Pigeon," and installed me in a comfortable room in his hotel. […] I would then hand-carry his film out of the country, via Peshawar, the Khyber Pass, through the Kabul Gorge, and up to Kabul, Afghanistan, where I would meet a BBC courier and transfer the film bag.
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slanggovernmentmilitarypoliticsA weak or useless person.
pigeonverb詞源 1/ˈpɪ.dʒɪn/
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To deceive with a confidence game.
pigeonnoun詞源 2/ˈpɪ.dʒɪn/
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archaicinformalConcern or responsibility.
- It's their pigeon.
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