Word info

pigeon hole

Speech parts

1. pigeon hole - Noun

2. pigeon hole - Verb

Meaning

pigeon hole (plural pigeon holes)

Alternative spelling of pigeonhole

pigeon-hole (plural pigeon-holes)

Alternative spelling of pigeonhole

pigeon-hole (third-person singular simple present pigeon-holes, present participle pigeon-holing, simple past and past participle pigeon-holed)

Alternative spelling of pigeonhole

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Alternative names

pigeon-hole

Examples

The quality of the human that precludes identifying the individual with the class is ‘metaphysical' and has no place in empiricist epistemology. The pigeon hole into which a man is shoved circumscribes his fate. Max Horkheimer

I am real, real picky with what I decided to do. I want to make sure it's new and at the same time that it's in the same color of what I have played before. Not to pigeon hole myself but I don't like to do fluff. Ryan Hurst

In 2007, the sixth edition of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary removed the hyphens from 16,000 entries, such as fig-leaf (now fig leaf), pot-belly (now pot belly) and pigeon-hole (now pigeonhole). citation. Source: Internet

Instead Thomas is viewed as part of the modernism and romanticism movements, though attempts to pigeon-hole him within a particular neo-romantic school have been unsuccessful. Source: Internet

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