Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A variant of pewit .

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) The pewit.

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  • noun obsolete A bird, the peewit.

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Examples

  • The fact that Barry is part-Filipino is gravy for me (thought I confess it was like being kicked it the gut when words like "puet" and "aswang" came up - plus the misspelled "aiie, n'ako!").

    Archive 2003-06-01 Dean Francis Alfar 2003

  • The fact that Barry is part-Filipino is gravy for me (thought I confess it was like being kicked it the gut when words like "puet" and "aswang" came up - plus the misspelled "aiie, n'ako!").

    notes from the peanut gallery Dean Francis Alfar 2003

  • July 24, 2009 at 4:36 am wii has eh ‘costuem’ box en baesmen (bawt noe cat dere)….hii has awld pare awf wurk pantz. adn nawt-tu-smellee shurt en deh laundree rum (hii warez unnershurtz). soe das wat himz gut awn. aiz en shortz frum draew (taken teh dai awf), adn tshurt frum las nite awn teh chare coz ai wuz tu lazee tu puet awai las nite!

    Good Heavens! I’ve - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

  • Note 134: Régime, p. 76: "Vous deves regarder le femme qu'ele soit samblans a le mere tant com ele puet plus, et k'ele ait boinne couleur meslee de rouge en blanc, … et soit sainne tant c'on porra plus trover, car les maladives norrices tuent ains droite eure les enfans." back

    A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

  • [673] Warner, _ibid. _, p.v. [674] "Et sachies que je eusse cest livret mis en latin pour plus briefment deviser, mais pour ce que plusieurs entendent miex roumant que latin, j'e l'ay mis en roumant par quoy que chascun l'entende, et que les seigneurs et les chevalers et les autres nobles hommes qui ne scevent point de latin ou pou, qui ont esté oultre mer sachent et entendent se je dis voir ou non at se je erre en devisant pour non souvenance ou autrement que il le puissent adrecier et amender, car choses de lonc temps passées par la veue tournent en oubli et mémoire d'omme ne puet tout mie retenir ne comprendre."

    A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand

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  • noun (Zoöl.) The pewit.

    puet duet

    November 28, 2020