Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun peewit

2 senses of peewit

Sense 1
lapwing, green plover, peewit, pewit -- (large crested Old World plover having wattles and spurs)
       => plover -- (any of numerous chiefly shorebirds of relatively compact build having straight bills and large pointed wings; closely related to the sandpipers)

Sense 2
pewee, peewee, peewit, pewit, wood pewee, Contopus virens -- (small olive-colored woodland flycatchers of eastern North America)
       => New World flycatcher, flycatcher, tyrant flycatcher, tyrant bird -- (large American birds that characteristically catch insects on the wing)