Do we say pidgin or pigeon

pidgin 25 occurrences

But you may roam the world over, and you will hear no pidgin German.

Nowmy boy used to be learn-pidgin at Chantel's.

A pair of cooks, a pair of Number Twos, and all the "learn-pidgin" youngsters of two households came shuffling into the court; and arriving guests found all hands broaching cargo, in a loud confusion of orders and miscomprehension.

Sing Pete followed the riders, jolting along in the grub-wagon, awkwardly driving, with much clucking and pidgin-English, Old Tom and Baldy hitched to the heavy, canvas-covered vehicle with its "box-kitchen" and mess-board protruding gawkily out from the rear.

[Fr.]; palindrome, paragram^, anagram, clinch; abuse of language, abuse of terms. dialect, brogue, idiom, accent, patois; provincialism, regionalism, localism; broken English, lingua franca; Anglicism, Briticism, Gallicism, Scotticism, Hibernicism; Americanism^; Gypsy lingo, Romany; pidgin, pidgin English, pigeon English; Volapuk, Chinook, Esperanto, Hindustani, kitchen Kaffir.

[Fr.]; palindrome, paragram^, anagram, clinch; abuse of language, abuse of terms. dialect, brogue, idiom, accent, patois; provincialism, regionalism, localism; broken English, lingua franca; Anglicism, Briticism, Gallicism, Scotticism, Hibernicism; Americanism^; Gypsy lingo, Romany; pidgin, pidgin English, pigeon English; Volapuk, Chinook, Esperanto, Hindustani, kitchen Kaffir.

He hissed in the manner which he had to convey that he understood an order, but I held him as gently as I could for a minute and tried to demonstrate to him that I meant him no harm, and spoke the peace-language of pidgin-English, common enough in the Orient.

In a month he had a tan, and his pidgin had come back.

Kate had learned to talk on the island; she spoke pidgin from deep down.

Joe's pidgin was only half way there.

"Ono," he added in pidgin.

"If I choose to dodge reporters, that's my pidgin.

That evening she told Stell, relating her news in that telephone pidgin-English devised by every family of married sisters as protection against the neighbours and Central.

The pidgin English hula, ah-sa-ma-la-you.

SEE King, Charles E. The pidgin English hula, ah-sa-ma-la-you.

Melanesian Pidgin English grammar, texts, vocabulary.

HALL, ROBERT A., JR. Melanesian Pidgin English grammar, texts, vocabulary.

abroad as Coroner's pidgin.

The pidgin English hula, ah-sa-ma-la-you.

SEE King, Charles E. The pidgin English hula, ah-sa-ma-la-you.

Melanesian Pidgin English grammar, texts, vocabulary.

HALL, ROBERT A., JR. Melanesian Pidgin English grammar, texts, vocabulary.

abroad as Coroner's pidgin.

The speech of the Outside Men at this point becomes fearfully mixed with pidgin-English and local Chinese terms, rounded with corrupt Portuguese.

Said one Chinaman to another in pidgin-Japanese: 'It is shut,' and went away.

pigeon 798 occurrences

This sucks the eggs of my invention, Evacuates my wit's full pigeon-house.

Extra, when ordered: Chicken; pigeon; rabbit; butchers' meat; lemons; eggs; cheese; curdled milk.

We had not to wait long; the birds, wearied by a long flight, were evidently attracted by the favourable resting-place, and in less than a quarter of an hour, the air was darkened with the hosts hovering over our heads; the sound of their wings defies description, those of my readers who remember the peculiar noise made by a single pigeon in its flight, may form a faint idea by multiplying the sound a million times.

We had enough, and, for the remainder of the passage, were completely surfeited with pigeon fare, administered by the boat's cook in all sorts of outlandish forms.

Occasionally he makes the mistake of running across a mitrailleuse battery with its dog-teams needing reinforcements, or tries to billet himself on a military pigeon-loft and meets a violent death.

But our eyes were drawn off, at almost the second glance, from mountain-peaks and glens to the slopes of cultivated lowland, sheeted with bright green cane, and guinea-grass, and pigeon pea; and that not for their own sakes, but for the sake of objects so utterly unlike anything which we had ever seen, that it was not easy, at first, to discover what they were.

There was such an other for Turtle dooues: also there were two pigeon houses ioyning to them, hauing in them store of Turtle dooues and pigeons.

ass, donkey, jackass, mule, hinny; sumpter horse, sumpter mule; burro, cuddy^, ladino [U.S.]; reindeer; camel, dromedary, llama, elephant; carrier pigeon.

[wild mammals] fox, Reynard, vixen, stag, deer, hart, buck, doe, roe; caribou, coyote, elk, moose, musk ox, sambar^. [birds] bird; poultry, fowl, cock, hen, chicken, chanticleer, partlet^, rooster, dunghill cock, barn door fowl; feathered tribes, feathered songster; singing bird, dicky bird; canary, warbler; finch; aberdevine^, cushat^, cygnet, ringdove^, siskin, swan, wood pigeon.

[cow, cattle]; troat^, croak, peep [frog]; coo [dove, pigeon]; gobble

"And the pigeon pasty?" added Mrs. Butterby, regarding the table laid out beside her mistress's bed.

From Pigeon's Creek the loafers camefrom Roaring Fork, Cracker's Neck, from the Pocket down the valley, and from Turkey Cove.

Recruits came so fast, and to such proportions grew the Army of the Callahan, that Flitter Bill shrewdly suggested at once that Captain Wells divide it into three companies and put one up Pigeon's Creek under Lieutenant Jim Skaggs and one on Callahan under Lieutenant Tom Boggs, while the captain, with a third, should guard the mouth of the Gap.

Then they'll swoop down on Lieutenant Skaggs on Pigeon and gobble him up.

The Kentuckians were on their wayat that moment they might be riding full speed toward the mouth of Pigeon, where floated the flag.

A flight of green parrots sweep screaming above your head, the golden oriole or mango bird, the koel, with here and there a red-tufted bulbul, make a faint attempt at a chirrup; but as a rule the deep silence is unbroken, save by the melancholy hoot of some blinking owl, and the soft monotonous coo of the ringdove or the green pigeon.

Ome-mee, Pigeon or Dove.

He was neither prig nor pedant, and he was very popular in the best society; but he was not ashamed to let it be seen that his ambition soared higher than the fashionable world of turf and stable, cards and pigeon matches.

But she slipped away from him unawares, and ran off towards home, and the prince followed her; then she jumped up into the pigeon-house and shut the door.

So he waited till her father came home, and told him that the unknown maiden who had been at the feast had hidden herself in the pigeon-house.

Close by them lay a lamb, and a white pigeon, with its head tucked under its wing, was on a perch behind.

His gifts to the bride are a necklace and tiara of pigeon-blood rubies belonging to Queen Marie Antoinette, a million dollar cheque and a house in New York.

There was nothing for me that I could discern, in the C pigeon-hole; but next door but one, under E, there lay on the very top a letter which caught my eye and more.

"Ranaway from the subscriber a mulatto woman, named Esther, about thirty years of age, large stomach, wants her upper front teeth, and walks pigeon-toedsupposed to be about the lower fauxbourg.

During the week immense quantities of the Wild Pigeon (Passenger Pigeon, Columba Migratoria) had been flying over the city, in their way to and from a roost in the neighborhood.

Do we say   pidgin   or  pigeon