weet-weetn.2
/ˈwiːtwiːt/ An Australian toy (see quot. 1878), contrived to be capable of being thrown to a great distance.
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1878 R. B. Smyth Aborigines Victoria I. 352 The plaything (Fig. 170) called by the natives of the Yarra Wi-tch-wi-tch, We-a-witcht, Weet-weet, or Wa-voit, is one of the most extraordinary instruments used by savages... The head—in shape like two cones placed base to base—is about four inches and a half in length and one inch in diameter; and the stem, not quite two-tenths of an inch in diameter, is about twenty-one inches in length.
1886 Daily News 20 Dec. 5/3 The Australian toy called the weet-weet which can be thrown for several hundred yards, bounding off the ground at frequent intervals all the way.
1910 T. A. Joyce Handbk. Ethnogr. Coll. Brit. Mus. 117 A peculiar toy is the weet-weet or ‘kangaroo-rat’, which the practised player can throw to enormous distances.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
weet-weetv.
intransitive. To cry ‘weet, weet’.
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the world > animals > birds > sound or bird defined by > [verb (intransitive)] > chirp or twitter
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1845 S. Judd Margaret i. ii. 8 A sand-piper glided weet weeting along the shore.
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weet-weetint.n.1
A. int. /ˈwiːtˈwiːt/. An imitation of the cry of certain birds, esp. the sandpiper and chaffinch. Also n. as the name for this cry.
/ˈwiːtˈwiːt/. An imitation of the cry of certain birds, esp. the sandpiper and chaffinch. Also n. as the name for this cry.ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > birds > sound or bird defined by > [interjection] > imitation of call of bird
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weet1863
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the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Scolopacidae (snipes, etc.) > [interjection] > call of sandpiper
weet-weet1808
the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > family Fringillidae (finch) > [interjection] > sound made by chaffinch
weet-weet1808
1808–13 A. Wilson Amer. Ornithol. (1831) III. 170 I could still hear their low note of weet weet, as they approached near to the vessel below me.
1831 W. Howitt Bk. Seasons 128 The weet-weet and pink-pink of the chaffinch.
1843 Zoologist 1 221 The ‘weet weet’ of the sandpiper.
B. n.1 /ˈwiːtwiːt/. Used as a name for the sandpiper.
/ˈwiːtwiːt/. Used as a name for the sandpiper.ΘΚΠ
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1852 W. Macgillivray Hist. Brit. Birds IV. 350 Actitis. Weet-weet.
1852 W. Macgillivray Hist. Brit. Birds IV. 350 The Weet-weets are small migratory birds, which frequent the sandy and muddy margins of lakes, rivers, and estuaries.
1852 W. Macgillivray Hist. Brit. Birds IV. 351 Actitis Hypoleucos. The White~breasted Weet-weet.
1852 W. Macgillivray Hist. Brit. Birds IV. 356 Actitis macularia. The Spotted Weet-weet.
1862 C. A. Johns Brit. Birds 625 Weet-weet, the Common Sandpiper.
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