Definition of "chewink" []

• See towhee. (noun)

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• "In his attire he closely resembles the towhee, or "chewink," of the East, but has as an extra ornament a beautiful sprinkling of white on his back and wings, which makes him look as if he had thrown a gauzy mantle of silver over his shoulders."
• "It is no "chewink" at all, but almost as close a reproduction of a cat's mew as is the catbird's well-known call."
• "On the third or fourth of May I saw a loon in the pond, and during the first week of the month I heard the whip-poor-will, the brown thrasher, the veery, the wood pewee, the chewink, and other birds."