Definition of "pewee" []

• Any of various small, olive-gray North American flycatchers of the genus Contopus, especially a wood pewee. (noun)

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• "The pewee is the first bird to pipe up in the morning; and, during the early summer he preludes his matutinal ejaculation of"
• "Since Sept. 5, the pewee, which is native to Cuba and the Bahamas, has been seen repeatedly for several days."
• "We had a pewee along the creek behind our house for most of this past summer, and its entertaining song is highly recognizable to me now."