| 释义 |
pewee U.S. and Canada.|ˈpiːwiː|
[Echoic: cf. pewit.]
A name applied by some to small olivaceous fly-catchers of the family Tyrannidæ, and so identified with pewit 3; by others restricted to the genus Contopus, as Contopus virens, the wood-pewee of the United States and Canada.
1810A. Wilson in Poems & Lit. Prose (1876) I. 199 A pewee had fixed her nest on a projecting shelf of the rock. 1839–40W. Irving Wolfert's R. (1855) 19 The Pe-wit, or Pe-wee or Phœbe-bird; for he is called by each of these names, from a fancied resemblance to the sound of his monotonous note. 1869J. Burroughs in Galaxy Mag. Aug., The common pewee excites..pleasant emotions, both on account of its plaintive note and its exquisite mossy nest. 1870Lowell Study Wind. (1886) 19 The pewee is the first bird to pipe up in the morning. 1874S. F. Baird, etc. N. Amer. Birds II. 357 Contopus virens, Wood Pewee. 1875Whitney Life Lang. vii. 120 The cuckoo and the peewee and the toucan were named from their notes. 1883Century Mag. Sept. 685/1 The wood pewee builds an exquisite nest. |