Definitions for pipits

pipits pip·it

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IPA: /ˈpɪp ɪt/

Pipits is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 48 anagrams from letters in pipits (iippst).

Definitions for pipits

noun

  1. any of several small songbirds of the genus Anthus, of the family Motacillidae, resembling the larks in coloration, structure, and habits.

Origin of pipits

First recorded in 1760-70; imitative

Examples for pipits

When first discovered it contained two pipit's eggs and the egg of a cuckoo.

The food of this pipit is composed of insects, and worms, and small seeds.

Sprague's pipit is all in streaks of brown and gray, and lighter below.

I looked in vain for the wood-lark; the country people confound it with the pipit.

The best known is Sprague's pipit, called the Missouri skylark, or sometimes the prairie skylark.

From this and the season, and the size and color of the bird, I knew he had seen the pipit or titlark.

The nest of the pipit is made by hollowing out a little place in the ground and lining it with fine grasses.

Like the other members of its family, our Ground-Lark, or pipit, sometimes sings beautifully as it soars.

The Indian pipit affects open country and seems never to perch in trees.

Gin they had a' fouchten as he pipit, there wad hae been anither tale to tell.

Word Value for pipits
Scrable

9

Words with friends

11

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