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pewee
[ pee-wee ]
pewee
/ 藞辫颈藧飞颈藧 /
noun
- any of several small North American flycatchers of the genus Contopus, having a greenish-brown plumage
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of pewee1
An Americanism dating back to 1790鈥1800; imitative
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of pewee1
C19: imitative of its cry
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Example Sentences
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They were paging through a binder of listings, checking off the day鈥檚 sightings, including the northern beardless tyrannulet and greater pewee.
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The impacted species include blackbirds, flycatchers, sparrows, swallows, warblers and the western wood pewee.
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鈥淲hat makes pewee soccer particularly insidious is that boys and girls play together,鈥 he wrote.
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The migrant wildlife is gone, the pewees, vireos and wood thrushes all far to the south by now.
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鈥淭here鈥檚 your eastern wood pewee,鈥 he says with excitement, steadying the laser on the tree trunk next to the sitting bird.
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