peewit - Wiktionary, the free dictionary (original) (raw)

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  • 1.1 Alternative forms
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  • 1.4 Noun
    * 1.4.1 Translations
    * 1.4.2 References

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• pewit

Onomatopoeic; for the pronunciation /ˈpjuːɪt/ and corresponding form pewit, compare leeward, Seward, steward.

• IPA(key): /ˈpiːwɪt/
• IPA(key): /ˈpjuːɪt/[1] (especially, but not always, in the form pewit)

peewit (plural peewits)

1. Any of several birds:

   1. northern lapwing (Vanellus vanellus)
   2. laughing gull (Xema ridibundus)
   3. pewee or peewee
   4. (Australia) A magpie-lark (Grallina cyanoleuca).

2. The sound of the call of one of these birds.

3. ^ Michaelis, Hermann; Jones, Daniel (1913), “'piːwit ['pjuːit]”, in A Phonetic Dictionary of the English Language (Sammlung Phonetischer Wörterbücher; 2)‎[1], Hanover: Carl Meyer (Gustav Prior), →OCLC, page 330.

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