tewit

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Echoic, from the bird's cry.[1][2]

Noun

tewit (plural tewits)

  1. (Northern England, Scotland) A northern lapwing, Vanellus vanellus.[1][2]
    • 1866, Edward Peacock, English Church Furniture, Ornaments and Decorations, page 226:
      The crest was a tewit's head and neck erased or.
    • 2005, Birds Britannica, page 204:
      My father and uncle searched for a tewit's nest and brought home two eggs which were beaten with milk and sugar for me to eat raw.
    • 2008, Peter Robinson, All the Colours of Darkness, →ISBN, page 151:
      Once in a while, Banks or Sophia would approach too close to a tewit's ground nest, and the birds would start to panic, twittering and flying nervously back and forth, defending their territory.

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References

  1. Oxford English Dictionary Second Edition on CD-ROM (v. 4.0.0.3)
  2. Definition of “tewit””, in Collins English Dictionary, Collins English Dictionary, 2014 July 27, retrieved 2016-03-01

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