chewink
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of chewink
An Americanism dating back to 1785–95; imitative
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He will be led to find out that the chewink is a kind of finch and is so called because of its note, which is accented on the second syllable.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the same principles the ornithologist will direct you where to look for the greenlets, the wood-sparrow, or the chewink.
From Wake-Robin by John Burroughs
The next day, a chewink, I think the same whose music and whose teaching I had admired, honored me with a song and a sight together.
From Upon The Tree-Tops by Olive Thorne Miller
There wasa chewink in the Stanley woods, that brought off a brood of four, under the safe shelter of a rank thistle leaf, in the midst of trampling herds of cattle driven wild by flies.
From Moths of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton-Porter
But whatever his lineage, it is plain that the chewink is not a bird to be governed very strictly by the traditions of the fathers.
From Birds in the Bush by Bradford Torrey
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