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单词 peesweep
释义 peesweep, peaseweep Sc. and dial.|ˈpiːzwiːp|
Also 9 peese-weep, peeswip, peasweep.
[From the cry of the bird.]
The lapwing or pewit.
1796Statist. Acc. Scotl. XVII. 251 Tringa vanellus,..Lapwing, Teuchit, peesweep.a1810Tannahill Poems (1846) 18 The peeswip's scrighin' owre the spankie-cairn.1820Blackw. Mag. VI. 568 In pursuit of the Whaup and the Peaseweep.1891Barrie Lit. Minister xxxv, The plaintive cry of the peesweep as it rose in the air.
b. A local name of the Greenfinch.
1885Swainson Prov. Names Brit. Birds 59 Greenfinch..Peasweep. Because one of its notes, sounding thus, closely resembles that of the peewit.
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