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peewit

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Meaning

  1. noun Any of several birds: northern lapwing (Vanellus vanellus) laughing gull (Xema ridibundus) pewee or peewee A magpie-lark (Grallina cyanoleuca).
  2. noun northern lapwing (Vanellus vanellus)
  3. noun laughing gull (Xema ridibundus)
  4. noun pewee or peewee
  5. noun A magpie-lark (Grallina cyanoleuca).
  6. noun The sound of the call of one of these birds.
  7. noun ↑ Michaelis, Hermann; Jones, Daniel (1913), “'piːwit ['pjuːit]”, in A Phonetic Dictionary of the English Language (Sammlung Phonetischer Wörterbücher; 2)‎, Hanover: Carl Meyer (Gustav Prior), →OCLC, page 330.

Similar words

lapwing green plover wood pewee pewee pewit peewee contopus virens pewet puet piewipe

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Word family

peewits pewit pewits

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