pigeonner
French, verb/pi.ʒɔ.ne/
pigeonner is spelled P-I-G-E-O-N-N-E-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 8 million words in written French, the 94,626th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pigeonner is a French verb meaning “to take for a ride or dupe (the person being duped is the pigeon)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Saillir en parlant de la poitrine, des seins”.
What does pigeonner mean in English?
verb
- 1
informalto take for a ride or dupe (the person being duped is the pigeon)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Saillir en parlant de la poitrine, des seins. 2. Escroquer, abuser de la crédulité d'une personne (le « pigeon »). 3. S’abuser. 4. Employer le plâtre, avec la main et la truelle, sans avoir besoin de le jeter ni de le plaquer.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of pigeonner
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- pigeonnant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- pigeonné participle past
- pigeonne first-person indicative present
- pigeonnes indicative present second-person
- pigeonnons first-person indicative plural
- pigeonnez indicative plural present
- pigeonnent indicative plural present
- pigeonnais first-person imperfect indicative
- pigeonnait imperfect indicative singular
- pigeonnions first-person imperfect indicative
- pigeonniez imperfect indicative plural
- pigeonnaient imperfect indicative plural
- pigeonnai first-person historic indicative
- pigeonnas historic indicative past
- pigeonna historic indicative past
- pigeonnâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce pigeonner?
- /pi.ʒɔ.ne/
- \pi.ʒɔ.ne\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is pigeonner in French?
pigeonner appears about once in every 8 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).