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piewipe

piewipe noun: a bird, the lapwing or peewit.

Noun

piewipe (plural piewipes)

  1. (East-Anglia, UK, archaic, dialectal) A bird, the lapwing or peewit.
    • looking for a watch and purse on Battersby piewipes was very like looking for a needle in a bundle of hay1873–1884 (date written), Samuel Butler, edited by R[ichard] A[lexander] Streatfeild, The Way of All Flesh, London: Grant Richards, published 1903, →OCLC

Forms of piewipe

pluralpiewipes
alternative formpie-wipe
alternative formpyewipe

Origin of piewipe

Imitative of its note.

Questions about piewipe

What does piewipe mean?
Piewipe means a bird, the lapwing or peewit.
What part of speech is piewipe?
Piewipe is a noun.
What is the plural of piewipe?
The plural of piewipe is piewipes.

Words near piewipe in the dictionary

  1. Pietzsch
  2. pietà
  3. pietàs
  4. Pieve di Cadore
  5. pievish
  6. piewipe
  7. piewipes
  8. piewoman
  9. piewomen
  10. piezo
  11. piezo-

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