One of the flycatchers

• Small black-headed European gull
• Little bird
• Plover relative
• Training with international aristocrat not off to a flyer
• Plover's cousin
• Old World bird

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in 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 . The woodcock. [Local, U.S.] Wood pewee (Zo["o]l.), a bird ( Contopus virens ) similar ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. small black-headed European gull [syn: laughing gull , blackcap , pewit gull , Larus ridibundus ] large crested Old World plover having wattles and spurs [syn: lapwing , green plover , peewit ] small olive-colored woodland flycatchers of eastern North ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"lapwing" (still the usual name for it in Scotland), 1520s, imitative of its cry (compare Flemish piewit-voghel , Middle Low German kivit , German kiwitz ; also see kibitz ).