Found 3 hits - Term: stool pigeon, Database: *, Strategy: prefix
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
stool \stool\, n. as. st=ol a seat; akin to ofries. os.
st=ol, d. stoel, g. stuhl, ohg. stuol, icel. st=oll, sw.
dan. stol, goth. st=ols, lith. stalas a table, russ.
stol'; from the root of e. stand. root163. see stand, and
cf. fauteuil.
1. a single seat with three or four legs and without a back,
made in various forms for various uses.
1913 webster
2. a seat used in evacuating the bowels; hence, an
evacuation; a discharge from the bowels.
1913 webster
3. a stool pigeon, or decoy bird. u. s.
1913 webster
4. naut. a small channel on the side of a vessel, for the
dead-eyes of the backstays. --totten.
1913 webster
5. a bishop's seat or see; a bishop-stool. --j. p. peters.
1913 webster
6. a bench or form for resting the feet or the knees; a
footstool; as, a kneeling stool.
1913 webster
7. material, such as oyster shells, spread on the sea bottom
for oyster spat to adhere to. local, u.s.
1913 webster
stool of a window, or window stool arch., the flat
piece upon which the window shuts down, and which
corresponds to the sill of a door; in the united states,
the narrow shelf fitted on the inside against the actual
sill upon which the sash descends. this is called a window
seat when broad and low enough to be used as a seat.
stool of repentance, the cuttystool. scot.
stool pigeon, a pigeon used as a decoy to draw others
within a net; hence, a person used as a decoy for others.
1913 webster
see also:
stand fauteuil stool of a window window stool stool of repentance stool pigeon
- [2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
stool pigeon
n : a dummy pigeon used to decoy others
- [3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
29 moby thesaurus words for "stool pigeon":
agent provocateur, betrayer, blab, blabber, blabberer,
blabbermouth, canary, capper, come-on man, decoy, delator, fink,
informer, narc, nark, peacher, plant, shill, snitch, snitcher, spy,
squealer, stoolie, talebearer, tattler, tattletale, telltale,
tipster, whistle-blower
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http://www.thefreedictionary.com/stool+pigeon, score=35, date indexed=December 21, 2005, 8:10 pm Johnny Stool Pigeon (1949)
...Johnny Stool Pigeon adds up to a pretty routine hour-and-a-quarter of ... Johnny Stool Pigeon is by William Castle, no Mann but later to become ... ..
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