U.S. Also 8 cheeweeh. [From its note; whence also towhee.] A North American bird (Pipilo erythrophthalmus), also called Ground-robin.
1796. Morse, Amer. Geog., I. 210. Towhe Bird, Pewee, Cheeweeh.
1848–60. in Bartlett.
18[?]. Lowell, Beaver Brook. From ’neath the arching barberry-stems My footstep scares the shy chewink.
1884. Burroughs, Birds & Flowers, 134. The cheewink is a shy bird also.
