WordNet
n. one of a breed of pigeon that enlarge their crop until their breast is puffed out [syn: pouter]
Usage examples of "pouter pigeon".
Ivy Wrangton must have been seventeen, Wexford calculated, her face plain, puffy, young, her figure modishly pouter pigeon-like, her hair in that most unflattering of fashions, the cottage loaf.
He led them through the town, proud as a Pouter Pigeon to be their tour guide.
A younger daughter of one of the lesser Houses, she had always minded Merana of a pouter pigeon.
Frowning uncertainly, he remained bent until Daigian plucked at his red coat and led him away smiling, an amused pouter pigeon in dark blue slashed with white.
He was puffed up like a pouter pigeon with is professional pontifical pomposity reeling.
Humpty certainly rode in a very unorthodox fashion, pouter pigeon chest stuck out, hands held high, feet pointing down like a dancing master, showing a great patch of blue sky as he rose nearly a foot and a half out of the saddle over every fence.