Definitions for pipit

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IPA: /ˈpɪp ɪt/

Pipit is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 22 anagrams from letters in pipit (iippt).

Definitions for pipit

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 pipit

First recorded in 1760-70; imitative

Examples for pipit

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for pipit
Scrable

9

Words with friends

11

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