Definitions for pewits

pewits pe·wit

Spelling: [pee-wit, pyoo-it]
IPA: /ˈpi wɪt, ˈpyu ɪt/

Pewits is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 112 anagrams from letters in pewits (eipstw).

Definitions for pewits

noun

  1. the lapwing, Vanellus vanellus.
  2. the phoebe.

Origin of pewits

First recorded in 1520-30; imitative

Examples for pewits

It is unmistakably spring, because the pewit bushes are budding and on yonder aspen we can hear a forsythia bursting into song.

When its eggs are laid, the pewit will fight fiercely with any other of its species which comes too near it.

Marjory was very anxious that Blanche should see a pewit's nest.

One of the first birds I saw, and one of the most puzzling, was the lapwing or pewit.

On the 7th, we saw a curlieu and a pewit, and on the 9th we caught a land-bird, very much resembling a starling.

Now and then I caught the cry of a pewit, or saw a snipe glance up from his bed; but mainly I was busied about the mare.

In his best days, as he records in one of his letters, it was said of him that he “tripped like a pewit.”

I distinctly remembered firing it at a pewit an hour before, for Edmee had wanted to examine the bird's plumage.

Word Value for pewits
Scrable

10

Words with friends

11

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