pewee
any of several New World flycatchers of the genus Contopus.: Compare wood pewee.
the phoebe.
Origin of pewee
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How to use pewee in a sentence
Presently he had the little girl listen to a pewee twittering in a thorn-bush and the lusty call of a robin from an apple-tree.
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine | John Fox, Jr.This bird differs chiefly in its lighter coloring, but not in habits, from the black pewee of the Pacific slope.
Bird Neighbors | Neltje BlanchanThe slightly larger size of the phœbe and pewee is not always apparent when they are seen perching on the trees.
Bird Neighbors | Neltje BlanchanNow and again, as they rustled some low tree, a pewee or a nuthatch would give a startled chirp.
Earth's Enigmas | Charles G. D. RobertsOne thing must be said, however, in defence of the western wood-pewee—he means well.
Birds of the Rockies | Leander Sylvester Keyser
British Dictionary definitions for pewee
peewee
/ (ˈpiːwiː) /
any of several small North American flycatchers of the genus Contopus, having a greenish-brown plumage
Origin of pewee
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