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单词 pigeoning
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pigeoning
pigeoning n. colloquial Obsolete (a) the action or practice of swindling someone; (b) the practice of subsisting on a diet of pigeons.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > [noun] > action
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cogging1570
cozening1576
coney-catching1591
fool-taking1592
gulling1600
bat-fowling1602
sharking1602
imposturing1618
mountebanking1672
shamming1677
sharping1692
fineering1765
overreachinga1774
pigeoning1808
flat-catching1821
thimble-shifting1834
thimblerigging1839
strawing1851
thimbling1857
fiddling1884
piking1884
ramping1891
1808 E. Sleath Bristol Heiress III. 222 Though no veteran in the art, she was not worth pigeoning.
1858 W. M. Thackeray Virginians I. xlvi. 365 My good child, did I say a single word about fleecing, or cheating, or pigeoning.
1873 C. G. Leland Egyptian Sketch-bk. 70 He married the lady who put him up to pigeoning.
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