peesweep, peaseweep Sc. and dial.
(ˈpiːzwiːp)
Also 9 peese-weep, peeswip, peasweep.
[From the cry of the bird.]
The lapwing or pewit.
| 1796 Statist. Acc. Scotl. XVII. 251 Tringa vanellus,..Lapwing, Teuchit, peesweep. a 1810 Tannahill Poems (1846) 18 The peeswip's scrighin' owre the spankie-cairn. 1820 Blackw. Mag. VI. 568 In pursuit of the Whaup and the Peaseweep. 1891 Barrie Lit. Minister xxxv, The plaintive cry of the peesweep as it rose in the air. |
b. A local name of the Greenfinch.
| 1885 Swainson Prov. Names Brit. Birds 59 Greenfinch..Peasweep. Because one of its notes, sounding thus, closely resembles that of the peewit. |