peweeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Imitative, from its note.

名詞

pewee (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 pewees)

1. (countable) The common American tyrant flycatcher (of the genus Contopus).
2. (countable, US, dialectal) A woodcock.
3. (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.

派生語

• wood pewee

参考

• pewee on Wikipedia.

アナグラム

• pee-ew, weepe