Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An obsolete form of pigeon.

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  • noun Archaic spelling of pigeon.

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Examples

  • So is Pidge (as in pidgeon), Bobby, Lu, LaLa, Boo, Mamma, Moo … Goodness … I never call her by her REAL name.

    What’s In A (Nick)Name? | Her Bad Mother 2007

  • He wrote a damning letter to the vatican declaring open war, boatloads of evidence, long and detailed and in pidgeon English but bloody good reading.

    Think Progress » POLL: Only 3 Percent Say Homosexuality is America’s ‘Most Serious Moral Crisis’ 2006

  • This whole subject is a symptom of people’s unwillingness to think any more, to take the easy road of trying to stick everything into nicely labelled pidgeon holes – just like ‘zero tolerance programs’ that get kids suspended from school beause someone saw a plastic butterknife under their car seat in the parking lot.

    Celebrities: Ruining Everything « Whatever 2008

  • I arrested a guy for shoplifting in the town centre last year and when searched in custody he had a live pidgeon wrapped in a greggs sandwhich box concealed in his kecks.

    What A Load Of Pants! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009

  • I'd say that mny "English" people as pidgeon holes go are egalitarian in their love, praise and\or respect.

    Why are English sporting heroes so dull? | Kevin McKenna 2011

  • Commercial harvest of Ducks, pidgeons, Bison and other wild meat and fowl has been banned for a hundred years because people with consciences realized the damage that was being done (but we still lost the passenger pidgeon).

    Striped Bass Are Gamefish 2010

  • Commercial harvest of Ducks, pidgeons, Bison and other wild meat and fowl has been banned for a hundred years because people with consciences realized the damage that was being done (but we still lost the passenger pidgeon).

    Striped Bass Are Gamefish 2010

  • I asked him to restock one of my M12s and he told me it be cheaper to buy a pidgeon grade but he does awsome work if you have the money.

    Would You Pay $25,000 for a Piece of Wood? 2010

  • He threw his leather jacket over a pidgeon he lured with a crust, snapped its neck, cleaned and plucked it, then (using condiments from the hotel fast food pavilion) made "lemon pepper squab" in the hotel room coffee maker pot!

    PA Police Target Pigeon Shoot 2009

  • He threw his leather jacket over a pidgeon he lured with a crust, snapped its neck, cleaned and plucked it, then (using condiments from the hotel fast food pavilion) made "lemon pepper squab" in the hotel room coffee maker pot!

    PA Police Target Pigeon Shoot 2009

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  • A simplified language for the birds.

    April 12, 2008

  • Oops. Sorry. Udgeon not Idgeon...

    April 12, 2008

  • Clever definition though. Someone's got a bird list this would perch well on.

    April 12, 2008

  • List bilong reesetee.

    April 12, 2008