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noun

Pewee n.

(Zool.) A common American tyrant flycatcher (Sayornis phoebe, or Sayornis fuscus). Called also pewit, and phoebe.

The woodcock. (Local, U.S.)

Wood pewee (Zool.), a bird (Contopus virens) similar to the pewee (See Pewee, 1), but of smaller size.

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Etymology of 'Pewee'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Pewee" Quotes from Famous Books

... for the most part when I came out on to the railroad, on my way home, its yellow sand heap stretched away gleaming in the hazy atmosphere, and the rails shone in the spring sun, and I heard the lark and pewee and other birds already come to commence another year with us. They were pleasant spring days, in which the winter of man's discontent was thawing as well as the earth, and the life that had lain torpid began ...

— Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience • Henry David Thoreau

Words linked to "Pewee" : Contopus virens, pewit, tyrant bird, Contopus, Contopus sordidulus, genus Contopus, peewee, New World flycatcher, western wood pewee, tyrant flycatcher