peewit
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of peewit
C16: imitative of its call
Example Sentences
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There were 27 spring heads established on the estate and the first 10 were given the names of animals, including the hare, the peewit, the fox and the swan.
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2019
At the sudden cry of a peewit on the down, one or two bolted and had to be brought back by their officers.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
She had made a slight mistake in her calculations, that peewit, a matter of perhaps a quarter of a second, but enough.
From The Way of the Wild by Harry Rountree
When the peewit alights he runs along a few yards rapidly, as if carried by the impetus.
From Wild Life in a Southern County by Richard Jefferies
Now the tips of the chestnut twigs might bulge and bud, but spring was not spring until the plover paraded his new black breast, or a peewit rose screaming at the midnight intruder.
From Peccavi by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung
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