What is the meaning of Peewit?

Any of several birds:

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

northern lapwing (Vanellus vanellus)

laughing gull (Xema ridibundus)

pewee or peewee

A magpie-lark (Grallina cyanoleuca).

The sound of the call of one of these birds.

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

Source: wiktionary.org

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