| 单词 |
peesweep |
| 释义 |
peesweep, peaseweep Sc. and dial.|ˈpiːzwiːp| Also 9 peese-weep, peeswip, peasweep. [From the cry of the bird.] The lapwing or pewit.
1796Statist. Acc. Scotl. XVII. 251 Tringa vanellus,..Lapwing, Teuchit, peesweep. a1810Tannahill Poems (1846) 18 The peeswip's scrighin' owre the spankie-cairn. 1820Blackw. Mag. VI. 568 In pursuit of the Whaup and the Peaseweep. 1891Barrie Lit. Minister xxxv, The plaintive cry of the peesweep as it rose in the air. b. A local name of the Greenfinch.
1885Swainson Prov. Names Brit. Birds 59 Greenfinch..Peasweep. Because one of its notes, sounding thus, closely resembles that of the peewit. |

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