different between pewee vs peewit

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Imitative, from its note.

pewee (countable and uncountable, plural pewees)

(countable) The common American tyrant flycatcher (of the genus Contopus).
(countable, US, dialect) A woodcock.
(uncountable) An American version of the children's game gilli-danda.
- 1932, "Junius Maltby" by John Steinbeck
  He was clumsy at the new games, but his teachers did not hoot at him. Instead they quarreled for the privilege of showing him how to hold the pewee stick. There are several schools of technique in pewee.

peewit (plural peewits)

any of several birds
1. the Northern lapwing, Vanellus vanellus.
2. the laughing gull
3. the pewee or peewee

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