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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: small olive-colored woodland flycatchers of eastern North America [syn: pewee, peewee, peewit, pewit, wood pewee, Contopus virens]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: imitative Date: 1796 any of various small largely gray or olive-colored American flycatchers (genus Contopus)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Pewee Pe"wee, n. [So called from its note.] 1. (Zo["o]l.) A common American tyrant flycatcher (Sayornis ph[oe]be, or S. fuscus). Called also pewit, and ph[oe]be. 2. The woodcock. [Local, U.S.] Wood pewee (Zo["o]l.), a bird (Contopus virens) similar to the pewee (See Pewee, 1), but of smaller size.