pewee

English

AI In plain words

Writing a short explanation…

Written by a house AI from the entry below, in your language. The entry itself is the source.

pewee

/ˈpi.wi/

Where it comes from

Imitative of the vocalisations of various birds. For the passerine, originally imitative of the vocalisations of the eastern wood pewee, later extended to other members of the same genus.

noun pewees

countable Any of various tyrant flycatchers of the genus Contopus.
US, countable, dialectal A woodcock.
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.

Talk about this word

Cite this

MLA

"pewee." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/pewee. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

APA

pewee. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/pewee

Chicago

"pewee." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/pewee.

BibTeX

@misc{pewee_2026,
  title = {pewee},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/pewee},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}