Usage examples (21)

• "I reckon I wouldn't git pigeon-breasted with pride over it -- nossir!"
• "Farmin 'is kind of poor business for a woman; but I do hope, Mirandy, you ain't a-goin' to marry that poor, pigeon-breasted, peddlin 'cretur that's hangin' round here."
• But selection has not tended to make the duck elegant, or "pigeon-breasted"; it has enlarged the abdominal sack instead, besides allowing the addition of an extra rib in...
• All the gentlemen were very pigeon-breasted and very blue about the beards, and all the ladies were miraculous figures; and all the ladies and all the gentlemen were...