chewink
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of chewink
An Americanism dating back to 1785–95; imitative
Example Sentences
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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
It is no "chewink" at all, but almost as close a reproduction of a cat's mew as is the catbird's well-known call.
From Birds of the Rockies by Keyser, Leander S. (Leander Sylvester)
He is the towhee bunting or chewink, sometimes called ground robin, and in that corner of Colorado he takes the place the robin fills with us, the most common bird about the house.
From Upon The Tree-Tops by Miller, Olive Thorne
Climbing the loose-piled wall that hems The road along the mill-pond's brink, From 'neath the arching barberry-stems, My footstep scares the shy chewink.
From The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by Lowell, James Russell
The chewink is a curious exchange for the robin.
From A Bird-Lover in the West by Miller, Olive Thorne
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