"pewee" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "Imitative, from its note.",
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          "name": "Tyrant flycatchers",
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          "sense": "wood pewee",
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      "glosses": [
        "The common American tyrant flycatcher (of the genus Contopus)."
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(countable) The common American tyrant flycatcher (of the genus Contopus)."
      ],
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        "countable"
      ]
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      "glosses": [
        "A woodcock."
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        "(countable, US, dialect) A woodcock."
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          "ref": "1932, John Steinbeck, Junius Maltby:",
          "text": "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.",
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      "glosses": [
        "An American version of the children's game gilli-danda."
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(uncountable) An American version of the children's game gilli-danda."
      ],
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  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈpi.wi/"
    }
  ],
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      "sense": "wood pewee",
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    {
      "word": "smoke-colored pewee"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Imitative, from its note.",
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        "The common American tyrant flycatcher (of the genus Contopus)."
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        "(countable) The common American tyrant flycatcher (of the genus Contopus)."
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        "A woodcock."
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        "(countable, US, dialect) A woodcock."
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        "(uncountable) An American version of the children's game gilli-danda."
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈpi.wi/"
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