pewit

Plural: pewits

Noun

• A lapwing, a European wading bird with a distinctive cry.
• small black-headed European gull
• large crested Old World plover having wattles and spurs
• small olive-colored woodland flycatchers of eastern North America
• Alternative form of peewit.

Examples

• His cry of triumph after a bingo sounded like a PEWIT’s call.

Synonyms

blackcap, Contopus virens, green plover, lapwing, Larus ridibundus, laughing gull, peewee, peewit, pewee, pewit gull, wood pewee