Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
pewit .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.), Prov. Eng. The lapwing, or pewit.
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- noun UK, dialect A bird, the
lapwing orpeewit .
Etymologies
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Examples
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"But then you are not a piewipe, only a goose," said Dick.
Dick o' the Fens A Tale of the Great East Swamp George Manville Fenn 1870
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If it was a piewipe, go and kill hundreds o 'worms, and snails, and young frogs; if it was a heron, spear fish and pick the wriggling young eels out of the mud.
Dick o' the Fens A Tale of the Great East Swamp George Manville Fenn 1870
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"I did, and roast piewipe too," cried Dick; "but I don't think I shall ever eat any again."
Dick o' the Fens A Tale of the Great East Swamp George Manville Fenn 1870
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"I know if I was a piewipe I wouldn't be cheated by a few dummies and some pegged-down birds."
Dick o' the Fens A Tale of the Great East Swamp George Manville Fenn 1870
hernesheir commented on the word piewipe
It's a bird.
October 20, 2011