Pigeon vs. Spelling

Pigeonnoun

One of several birds of the family Columbidae, which consists of more than 300 species.

Spellingnoun

(uncountable) The act, practice, ability, or subject of forming words with letters, or of reading the letters of words; orthography.

Pigeonnoun

(slang) A person who is a target or victim of a confidence game.

Spellingnoun

(uncountable) The manner of spelling of words; correct spelling.

Pigeonnoun

(slang) Concern or responsibility (often in some such phrase as: "it's his pigeon", "it's her pigeon", etc.).

Spellingnoun

(countable) A specific spelling of a word.

Pigeonverb

(transitive) to deceive with a confidence game

Spellingnoun

A spelling test or spelling bee.

Pigeonnoun

Any bird of the order Columbæ, of which numerous species occur in nearly all parts of the world.

Spellingnoun

The act of one who spells; formation of words by letters; orthography.

Pigeonnoun

An unsuspected victim of sharpers; a gull.

Spellingadjective

Of or pertaining to spelling.

Pigeonverb

To pluck; to fleece; to swindle by tricks in gambling.

‘He's pigeoned and undone.’;

Spellingnoun

forming words with letters according to the principles underlying accepted usage

Pigeonnoun

wild and domesticated birds having a heavy body and short legs

Spelling

Spelling is a set of conventions that regulate the way of using graphemes (writing system) to represent a language in its written form. In other words, spelling is the rendering of speech sound (phoneme) into writing (grapheme).

Pigeonnoun

a stout seed- or fruit-eating bird with a small head, short legs, and a cooing voice, typically having grey and white plumage.

Pigeonnoun

a pigeon descended from the wild rock dove, kept for racing, showing, and carrying messages, and common as a feral bird in towns.

Pigeonnoun

a gullible person, especially someone swindled in gambling or the victim of a confidence trick.

Pigeonnoun

an aircraft from one's own side.

Pigeonnoun

archaic spelling of pidgin

Pigeonnoun

a person's particular responsibility or business

‘Hermia will have to tell them first, it's her pigeon’;