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pewee
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pewee \Pe"wee\, n. [So called from its note.]
(Zo["o]l.) A common American tyrant flycatcher ( Sayornis ph[oe]be, or Sayornis fuscus). Called also pewit, and ph[oe]be.
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The woodcock. [Local, U.S.]
Wood pewee (Zo["o]l.), a bird ( Contopus virens) similar to the pewee (See Pewee, 1), but of smaller size.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 Common American tyrant flycatchers (of the genus ''Contopus''). 2 (context US dialect English) A woodcock. 3 An American version of the children's game http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilli-danda
WordNet
n. small olive-colored woodland flycatchers of eastern North America [syn: peewee, peewit, pewit, wood pewee, Contopus virens]
Gazetteer
Wikipedia
The genus Contopus is a group of small to medium-sized insect-eating birds in the Tyrant flycatcher family Tyrannidae.
These birds are commonly known as pewees, from the call of one of the more common members of this vocal group. They are generally charcoal-grey birds with wing bars that live in wooded areas.
There are fourteen recognized species:
- White-throated pewee, C. albogularis
- Cuban pewee, C. caribaeus
- Tropical pewee, C. cinereus
- Olive-sided flycatcher, C. cooperi
- Smoke-colored pewee, C. fumigatus
- Hispaniolan pewee, C. hispaniolensis
- Lesser Antillean pewee, C. latirostris
- Dark pewee, C. lugubris
- Blackish pewee, C. nigrescens
- Ochraceous pewee, C. ochraceus
- Jamaican pewee, C. pallidus
- Greater pewee, C. pertinax
- Western wood pewee, C. sordidulus
- Eastern wood pewee, C. virens
Usage examples of "pewee".
The air was tremulous with heavenly notes, the lights went out in the hall, dusk swept across the stage, a cricket sang and a katydid answered, and a wood pewee wrung the heart with its lonesome cry.
We gave up the pewee and went back to the raft-making, talking very fast now, and laughing a lot.
Now and again, as they rustled some low tree, a pewee or a nuthatch would give a startled chirp.
But, gentlemen and ladies, in my opinion, the near-sighted was about as much to blame for what happened, as a pewee is for being swallered by a black snake.
But the pewees came back at last, and one of them is now on his wonted perch, so near my window that I can hear the click of his bill as he snaps a fly on the wing with the unerring precision a stately Trasteverina shows in the capture of her smaller deer.
Stretched on the boughs, I listened to the wood pewees calling their haunting good nights until I fell sound asleep.
One morning before the wood pewees were up, I was smoking a mess of fish I had caught in the stream.
We went with this from warblers, sparrows, pewees, all through past eagles and were just ready for condors when something deep in me gave way to outrage.
On the third or fourth of May I saw a loon in the pond, and during the first week of the month I heard the whip-poor-will, the brown thrasher, the veery, the wood pewee, the chewink, and other birds.
The warning signal Richard had taught Cara was the plaintive, high, clear whistle of a common wood pewee, although Cara didn't know that's what it was.
One morning before the wood pewees were up, I was smoking a mess of fish I had caught in the stream.