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piewipe en · NOUN

Etymology

Imitative of its note.

Meanings

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 hay 1873–1884 (date written), Samuel Butler, edited by R[ichard] A[lexander] Streatfeild, The Way of All Flesh, London: Grant Richards, published 1903, →OCLC:

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