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noun

Peewit, Peevit n. (Zool.) See Pewit.

peewit n.

A large crested Old World plover having wattles and spurs; the pewit.

Synonyms: lapwing, green plover, pewit, peevit, peerwit.

Any of several small olive-colored woodland flycatchers of eastern North America.

Synonyms: pewee, peewee, pewit, wood pewee, Contopus virens.

Pewit n. (Zool.)

(a)

The lapwing.

(b)

The European black-headed, or laughing, gull (Xema ridibundus). See under Laughing.

(c)

The pewee. (Written also peevit, peewit, pewet)

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Etymology of 'Peewit'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Peewit" Quotes from Famous Books

... "Kayrawan" which is still the common name for curlew, the peewit and plover being called (onomatopoetically) "Bibat" and in Marocco Yahudi, certain impious Jews having been turned into the Vanellus Cristatus which still wears the black skullcap ...

— Supplemental Nights, Volume 2 • Richard F. Burton

... some minutes wrapped in my dressing gown, before the open window. The night was very still, and save for an occasional rustle of the wind in the distant tree-tops, the hooting of an owl, the melancholy cry of a peewit and the hoarse barking of a ...

— Scottish Ghost Stories • Elliott O'Donnell