Definition of Peetweets

1. peetweet [n] - See also: peetweet

Lexicographical Neighbors of Peetweets

peerier
peeries
peeriest
peering
peeringly
peerless
peerlessly
peerlessness
peers
peery
pees
pees off
peesweep
peesweeps
peetweet
peetweets
peeve
peeved
peever
peevers
peeves
peeving
peevish
peevishly
peevishlyer
peevishlyest
peevishness
peevishnesses
peewee
peewee golf

Literary usage of Peetweets

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Walden by Henry David Thoreau (1910)
"Ducks and geese frequent it in the spring and fall, the white- bellied swallows (Hirundo bicolor) skim over it, and the peetweets (Totanus macularius) ..."

2. Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country (1866)
"... steel- coloured, and golden—and ducks, geese, peetweets, with other wild birds, may be found there. One who has seen the spot can scarcely wonder that ..."

3. Thoreau's Walden by Henry David Thoreau, Raymond Macdonald Alden (1910)
"Ducks and geese frequent it in the spring and fall, the white-bellied swallows (Hirundo bicolor) skim over it, and the peetweets (Totanus macu- larius) ..."

4. The Arctic Prairies: A Canoe-journey of 2,000 Miles in Search of the Caribou by Ernest Thompson Seton (1911)
"... the summer home of countless Ducks, Geese, Tattlers Terns, Peetweets, Gulls, Rails, Blackbirds, and half a hundred of the lesser tribes. ..."

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