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pewees

pewees is the plural of pewee.

Meaning of pewee

Noun

pewee (countable and uncountable, plural pewees)

  1. (countable) Any of various tyrant flycatchers of the genus Contopus.
  2. (US, countable, dialectal) A woodcock.
  3. (uncountable) An American version of the children's game gilli-danda.
    • He was clumsy at the new games, but his teachers did not hoot at him. Instead they quarreled for the privilege of showing him how to hold the pewee stick. There are several schools of technique in pewee.1932, John Steinbeck, Junius Maltby

Phrases with pewees

Questions about pewees

What is pewees the plural of?
Pewees is the plural of pewee.

Words near pewees in the dictionary

  1. pewbs
  2. pewdom
  3. Pewds
  4. pewed
  5. pewee
  6. pewees
  7. pewet
  8. pewets
  9. pewfellow
  10. pewfellows
  11. pewful

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