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peewitn.int. Origin: An imitative or expressive formation. Etymology: Imitative of the bird's call. Compare Dutch regional (West Flanders) piewit-voghel (16th cent.; now piewit ). Compare peesweep n., peewee n.1, peeweep n. Compare also with different initial consonant tewhit n., thuet n., and kiewiet n. N.E.D. (1905) enters this under the double headword pewit, peewit and also gives the pronunciation (piū·it) /ˈpjuːɪt/. Primary stress was probably originally on the second syllable /ˌpiːˈwiːt/. 1. British. the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > [noun] > family Charadriidae > member of genus Vanellus > vanellus vanellus (lapwing) a1529 J. Skelton (?1545) sig. B.iii The Culuer, the Stockedowue With puwyt the Lapwyng The versycles shall syng. 1570 P. Levens sig. Giv/1 A Puet, phalaris. 1612 in G. Ornsby (1878) 29 Sr George Dawlston's man bringing 20 puetts. 1688 R. Holme ii. 254/2 A..Pewet..in the North of England..is called a Tewit, or Bastard Plover. 1725 R. Bradley at Spring The Snipe and Woodcock, Pewit, or the like. 1763 R. Brookes VI. xxxvi. 324 The Lapwing, called in the North of England a Pee-wit, from its particular cry. 1821 J. Clare II. 121 The startling peewits, as they pass, Scream joyous whirring over~head. 1842 Ld. Tennyson Will Waterproof's Monologue in (new ed.) II. 193 To come and go,..Returning like the pewit [rhyme cruet]. a1933 J. A. Thomson (1934) II. 1262 Language..gets beyond inborn or instinctive calls like the cry of a pewit..or the croaking of each particular kind of frog. 1992 T. Pow (BNC) 109 Their call is like the peewit, but here it doesn't sound melancholy like those peewits over Scotland's moors and ruined crofts. the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > [noun] > family Charadriidae > member of genus Vanellus > vanellus vanellus (lapwing) > cry of 1812 39 106 The shrilly sounding cry of Pe-wit. 1876 S. Smiles xiii. 260 You could now hear..the pleasant peewit of the Lapwing. 1897 H. G. Wells ix ‘Peewit,’ said a peewit, very remote. 1972 H. Heinzel et al. (BNC) 124 Calls and song [of the lapwing] all variations on ‘pee-wit’ theme.., usual ground call being ‘peeet’, flight call ‘pee-wit’ and song, delivered in striking aerobatic display, ‘p'weet, pee-wit, pee-wit’. 1995 27 Feb. 20/2 The males declare their presence by..making the ‘peewit’ cry from which this species takes its other name. the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Laridae (gulls and terns) > [noun] > member of genus Larus (gull) > larus ridibundus (black-headed gull) 1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby 347 The Pewit or Black-cap, called in some places, The Sea-Crow and Mire-Crow: Larus cinereus. 1686 R. Plot vii. 231 The Larus cinereus..call'd the black-Cap..or..the Pewit. 1766 T. Pennant ii. 143 The Pewit Gull... The notes of these gulls distinguish them from any others; being like a hoarse laugh. c1792 IX. 579/1 The ridibundus, pewit, or black-head gull. 1885 C. Swainson 209 Puit or Peewit gull. 1894 A. Newton et al. 710 Pewit, anciently Puet, the ordinary name of what is called in books the Black-headed Gull, Larus ridibundus, in the inland localities affected by it for breeding. 2003 (Nexis) 3 Jan. 9 In more poetic ages they [sc. black-headed gulls] were known as Laughing Gulls and Peewit Gulls—a name they earned from their habit of bullying lapwings into surrendering food. the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > [noun] > family Tyrannidae (tyrant-bird) > genus Sayornis the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > [noun] > family Tyrannidae (tyrant-bird) > genus Contopus (pewit) 1615 R. Hamor 21 There are foule of diuers sorts, Eagles..Curlewes, Puits [etc.].] 1791 W. Bartram 289* Muscitapa [sic] nunciola, the pewit, or black cap flycatcher... M. rapax, the lesser pewit. 1817 J. F. Stephens X. ii. 378 It [sc. the Wood Flycatcher] is called the Small Pewit in North America. 1839 W. Irving Birds of Spring in May 43 Another of our feathered visitors..is 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. 1894 A. Newton et al. 711 The name Pewit..was given from the bird's cry, as it is in North America to one of the Tyrant-birds, Sayornis fusca, which is a general favourite there as a recognized harbinger of summer. 1917 II. 203 Wood Pewee. Myiochanes virens... [Also called] Pewit; Pewee; Pewee Flycatcher. 1933 15 Apr. 4/5 Garter snakes slither along the dusty road, frogs and pewits are piping away in the marsh. Compounds 1903 IV. 457/1 Pee-wit-ground or -land, poor undrained land, such as is frequented by pee-wits. 1877 E. Leigh 153 Peewit Land, moist, spongy land such as is frequented by peewits. 1889 1 13 I have heard Lincolnshire rustics speak of poor, moist, rush-growing land as ‘Peewit Land’, as those birds love to frequent such spots. the world > the earth > water > lake > pool > [noun] > with birds 1686 R. Plot vii. 231 At which Moss they continued about three years, and then removed to the old pewit poole again. 1772 R. Brookes (ed. 2) V. 287 The old Pewit Pool in the parish of Norbury. 1894 A. Newton et al. 710 The great Pewit-pool at Norbury in Staffordshire..had ceased to be occupied by the end of the last century. the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Mollusca > [noun] > Testacea (shelled molluscs) > shelled mollusc > shell 1776 E. M. da Costa 173 The sixth family is the Nuces seu Bullæ, commonly called the Pewit's Eggs. 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