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pewet

pewet is the archaic form of peewit.

Meaning of peewit

Noun

peewit (plural peewits)

  1. northern lapwing (Vanellus vanellus)
  2. laughing gull (Xema ridibundus)
  3. pewee or peewee
  4. (Australia) A magpie-lark (Grallina cyanoleuca).
    • A hawk came swooping down near tree-level to be immediately assailed by screeching pee-wits.1937, Ion L. Idriess, Over the Range, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, published 1947, page 107
  5. The sound of the call of one of these birds.

Forms of pewet

pluralpewets

Questions about pewet

What is pewet the archaic form of?
Pewet is the archaic form of peewit.

Words near pewet in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pewet (page history and authors); peewit (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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