Young+pigeon

  • 31pigeon —    Regularly used of a young girl, a sweetheart, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and still occasionally found. Girl with Green Eyes, by Edna O’Brien, has ‘you poor little pigeon’ used as an intimacy. In later slang use a pigeon was a… …

    A dictionary of epithets and terms of address

  • 32pigeon berry — Poke Poke, n. (Bot.) A large North American herb of the genus {Phytolacca} ({Phytolacca decandra}), bearing dark purple juicy berries; called also {garget}, {pigeon berry}, {pocan}, and {pokeweed}. The root and berries have emetic and purgative… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 33pigeon's milk — noun a curd like secretion from a pigeon s crop, which it regurgitates and feeds to its young …

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  • 34pigeon's milk — noun or pigeon milk : a milky fluid with solid particles resembling cheese that is produced by the breaking down and discharge of the cells lining the crop and regurgitated by pigeons for their young …

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  • 35pigeon — pi•geon [[t]ˈpɪdʒ ən[/t]] n. 1) orn any bird of the family Columbidae, having a plump body and small head, esp. the larger species with square or rounded tails Compare dove I, 1) 2) sts Slang. a) a girl or young woman b) a person who is easily… …

    From formal English to slang

  • 36Pigeon —    Pigeons are mentioned as among the offerings which, by divine appointment, Abram presented unto the Lord (Gen. 15:9). They were afterwards enumerated among the sin offerings (Lev. 1:14; 12:6), and the law provided that those who could not… …

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  • 37pigeon — pi|geon S3 [ˈpıdʒın] n [Date: 1300 1400; : Old French; Origin: pijon, from Late Latin pipio young bird ] a grey bird with short legs that is common in cities …

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  • 38pigeon berry — noun tall coarse perennial American herb having small white flowers followed by blackish red berries on long drooping racemes; young fleshy stems are edible; berries and root are poisonous • Syn: ↑poke, ↑garget, ↑scoke, ↑Phytolacca americana •… …

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  • 39Blue pigeon — Pigeon Pi geon, n. [F., fr. L. pipio a young pipping or chirping bird, fr. pipire to peep, chirp. Cf. {Peep} to chirp.] 1. (Zo[ o]l.) Any bird of the order Columb[ae], of which numerous species occur in nearly all parts of the world. [1913… …

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  • 40Green pigeon — Pigeon Pi geon, n. [F., fr. L. pipio a young pipping or chirping bird, fr. pipire to peep, chirp. Cf. {Peep} to chirp.] 1. (Zo[ o]l.) Any bird of the order Columb[ae], of which numerous species occur in nearly all parts of the world. [1913… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English