pewee

Plural: pewees

Noun

• A small American flycatcher bird.
• small olive-colored woodland flycatchers of eastern North America
• The common American tyrant flycatcher (of the genus Contopus).
• A woodcock.
• An American version of the children's game gilli-danda.

Examples

• He whistled like a PEWEE when he realized he had a six-letter word.

Synonyms

Contopus virens, peewee, peewit, pewit, wood pewee