👉 Okay, let’s tackle this wonderfully prickly little beast of a word, alright? Defining "… pigeon-isely associated…" is frankly a delightful head-scratcher because nobody actually
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it. It just… sort of exists in the conversational twilight.
Basically, when you say something is "… pigeon-isely associated…," we're venturing into the wonderfully weird territory of describing an unsettling, almost instinctively felt connection between something and, rather dramatically, pigeons. 1) There aren't official rules! 2) The emphasis is on that icky feeling. It’s not that you literally see a pigeon everywhere. Instead, it's this…resonance—the sense that the thing in question has somehow been permanently marked by the very presence of these grey-winged voyeurs and their frankly questionable habits. Think about those things that just...stick to your mind after you look at them for too long. That slight prickle of unease? That feeling something isn’t quite right, as if it's being quietly observed by a feathered critic with a crumb of a grievance. 3) You probably don't even want to know what the pigeon has done. Now, let's get unsettling. Here’s an egregiously worded sentence: The antique music box, inlaid with mother-of-pearl that had a distinctly… pigeon-isely associated glaze—as if it had spent a long, damp evening absorbing
