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pigeon /'pidʤin/- danh từ
- người ngốc nghếch, người dễ bị lừa
- to pluck a pigeon: "vặt lông" một anh ngốc
- clay pigeon
- đĩa (bằng đất sét) ném tung lên để tập bắn
- ngoại động từ
- lừa, lừa gạt
- to pigeon someone of a thing: lừa ai lấy vật gì
Concise Dictionary
pigeons'pɪdʒɪn
noun
+wild and domesticated birds having a heavy body and short legs
Advanced English Dictionary
+ noun
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
Compare: DOVE
See also - CARRIER PIGEON, CLAY PIGEON, HOMING PIGEON, WOOD PIGEON
Idioms: be sb's pigeon (old-fashioned, BrE) to be sb's responsibility or business
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Collocation Dictionary
noun
ADJ.
carrier, homing, racing | feral | wood | clay
clay pigeon shooting
QUANT.
flock
PIGEON + VERB
fly | strut
A pigeon strutted along the roof, cooing rhythmically.
| nest, roost | coo, croon
PIGEON + NOUN
droppings, shit
(taboo)
| loft | fancier
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