weet weetとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) Directly from Woiwurrung, the name of the weapon/toy

名詞

weet weet (countable and uncountable, plural weet weets)

1. An Australian Aboriginal children's throwing game popular in some parts of Australia.
2. The toy or implement thrown in this game, consisting of a cigar-shaped stick fastened at one end to a flexible twig.

   Synonym: play stick

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名詞

weet-weet (plural weet-weets)

1. (obsolete, UK, dialect) The common European sandpiper.
2. (obsolete, UK, dialect) The chaffinch.

参照

• “weet-weet”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.