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
The carrier whistled to his horse, the cry of a peewit came shrilling across the moor, one wheel of the cart squeaked loudly for grease.
From Laid up in Lavender by Weyman, Stanley J.
A quarter of an hour later, a weird cry, something like that of a curlew or peewit, but not exactly either, came to our ears from the north-west near the river.
From 13 Days The Chronicle of an Escape from a German Prison by Caunter, John Alan Lyde
Lapwing, lap′wing, n. the name of a bird of the plover family, also called peewit, from its peculiar cry.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
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