pewit

pe·wit also pee·wit (p

, py

See lapwing.

[Imitative of its call.]

pewit [ˈpiːwɪt]

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) another name for lapwing

[imitative of the bird's cry]

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Noun	1.	pewit - small black-headed European gull Larus ridibundus, laughing gull, pewit gull, blackcap sea gull, seagull, gull - mostly white aquatic bird having long pointed wings and short legs genus Larus, Larus - type genus of the Laridae
	2.	pewit - large crested Old World plover having wattles and spurs green plover, lapwing, peewit plover - any of numerous chiefly shorebirds of relatively compact build having straight bills and large pointed wings; closely related to the sandpipers genus Vanellus, Vanellus - Eurasian lapwings
	3.	pewit - small olive-colored woodland flycatchers of eastern North America Contopus virens, pewee, wood pewee, peewee, peewit New World flycatcher, tyrant bird, tyrant flycatcher, flycatcher - large American birds that characteristically catch insects on the wing Contopus, genus Contopus - pewees Contopus sordidulus, western wood pewee - small flycatcher of western North America

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blackcap Contopus sordidulus Contopus virens genus Contopus genus Larus genus Vanellus green plover lapwing Larus Larus ridibundus laughing gull New World flycatcher Peerweet Peevit peewit Pewet pewit gull Sea gull seagull	There is also the black-headed gull (twenty-five plus), once known as a coddymoddy, in Suffolk and a Scoulton pewit in Norfolk, and the green woodpecker (twenty-five plus), or rain-bird, yaffle, and wood-awl. Ode to a clodhopper by Betts, Jerome / Verbatim I piped, "a jade pipit + ," I wept, "a fat pewit +, likely lass, a Lyle kilt + "Milkvat Sugarer," a Gustav Klimt + Nan, evocative, a Tina-Nita-Evita covenant + Nedra, reveling nil ever ardent, + , nimrod, rank nard or mint +, O Bora Bora Rob, a robot + , Ole, Maced in Snide Camelot On the abundance of palindromes by Puder, Jim / Word Ways PEEWEEP also called the pewit or lapwing, these large Old World plovers have an erratic, flapping flight and a shrill cry that can be heard all over the Park. Palindrome Park by Grant, Jeff / Word Ways	petulantly Petulcity Petulcous Petune petunia Petunia axillaris Petunia hybrida Petunia integrifolia Petunse petuntse petuntze Petworth House Petworth marble Petzite Peucedanin Peucil Peul Pevsner pew Pew opener Pewage pewee Pewet Pewfellow Pewing pewit pewit gull pewter Pewterer Pewtery Pexity Peyer's glands Peyer's patch peyote Peyton Rous Peytrel Peziza Peziza coccinea Peziza domicilina Pezizaceae Pezizales Pezizoid Pezophaps Pezophaps solitaria pf pf. pfa Pfalz pfannkuchen PFC PFD	Pew Initiative on Food and Biotechnology Pew Institute for Ocean Science Pew Internet and American Life Project Pew National Dental Education Program Pew National Veterinary Education Program Pew opener Pew Research Center Pew Research Center for the People and the Press Pew, Joseph N., Jr. Pewa Pewage Pewarta Damai Kasih Bangsa Pewaukee Yacht Club PEWC PEWD PEWE pewee pewee pewees pewees Pewet Pewfellow PEWG PEWI Pewien Lamer Opuscil Nasza Kompanie Pewing Pewing Pewing pewit pewit gull pewits Pewnie Lepiej Olac Niz Komentowac Pewp Pewp Pewp Pewp PEWPA PEWS PEWS PEWS PEWS PEWT pewter pewter pewter Pewter Arched Forged Iron Front Pewter Collectors Club of America Pewterer Pewterer pewterers pewterers Pewtersmith Pewtersmith Pewterwort Pewterwort Pewterwort Pewtery PEWV Pex

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blackcap
Contopus sordidulus
Contopus virens
genus Contopus
genus Larus
genus Vanellus
green plover
lapwing
Larus
Larus ridibundus
laughing gull
New World flycatcher
Peerweet
Peevit
peewit
Pewet
pewit gull
Sea gull
seagull

There is also the black-headed gull (twenty-five plus), once known as a coddymoddy, in Suffolk and a Scoulton pewit in Norfolk, and the green woodpecker (twenty-five plus), or rain-bird, yaffle, and wood-awl.

Ode to a clodhopper by Betts, Jerome / Verbatim

I piped, "a jade pipit + ," I wept, "a fat pewit +, likely lass, a Lyle kilt + "Milkvat Sugarer," a Gustav Klimt + Nan, evocative, a Tina-Nita-Evita covenant + Nedra, reveling nil ever ardent, + , nimrod, rank nard or mint +, O Bora Bora Rob, a robot + , Ole, Maced in Snide Camelot

On the abundance of palindromes by Puder, Jim / Word Ways

PEEWEEP also called the pewit or lapwing, these large Old World plovers have an erratic, flapping flight and a shrill cry that can be heard all over the Park.

Palindrome Park by Grant, Jeff / Word Ways

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