tewit

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Scrabble points
8
Words With Friends
8
Letters
5

Definition of tewit

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (Northern-England, Scotland)A northern lapwing, Vanellus vanellus.
    “The crest was a tewit's head and neck erased or.”
    “My father and uncle searched for a tewit's nest and brought home two eggs which were beaten with milk and sugar for me to eat raw.”
    “Once in a while, Banks or Sophia would approach too close to a tewit's ground nest, and the birds would start to panic, twittering and flying nervously back and forth, defending their territory.”

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Etymology

Echoic, from the bird's cry.

Anagrams of tewit

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