1. Small olive-coloured woodland flycatcher of eastern North America
   "We heard the plaintive 'pee-a-wee' call of the peewee in the forest";
   - pewee, wood pewee, Contopus virens
    
2. [Austral] A passerine bird native to Australia, Timor and southern New Guinea having black and white plumage
   "We spotted a peewee building its nest in the eucalyptus tree";
   - magpie lark, mudlark [Austral]

Derived forms: peewees

Type of: flycatcher, New World flycatcher, tyrant bird, tyrant flycatcher

Part of: Contopus, genus Contopus

Encyclopedia: Peewee