Pewee

Definitions

1. The common American tyrant flycatcher (of the genus Contopus).
   countable
2. A woodcock.
   US, countable, dialectal
3. An American version of the children's game gilli-danda.
   uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

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