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   Pi·geon

   /ˈpij(ə)n/

   

   noun

   • 1. a stout seed- or fruit-eating bird with a small head, short legs, and a cooing voice, typically having gray and white plumage.
   • ▪ a pigeon descended from the wild rock dove, kept for racing, showing, and carrying messages, and common as a feral bird in towns.
   • 2. a gullible person, especially someone swindled in gambling or the victim of a confidence trick. informal North American
   • 3. an aircraft from one's own side. military slang

   Word 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.

   Derivatives

   • 1. pigeonry noun

   Scrabble Points: 9

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   • N

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