French: from pigeon ‘pigeon’ (Old French pijon
‘young bird’), hence a metonymic occupational name for a hunter of
wood pigeons, or a nickname for a foolish or gullible person, since
the birds are easily taken.
In some cases, an altered form of
French PetitJean.
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