Kibits:
[From Yiddish kibitsen, from German kiebitzen (to look on at cards),
from Kiebitz (busybody, literally pewit or lapwing, a shorebird with
a bad reputation as a meddler).]
Kibits, from Yiddish kibitzen and German Kiebitz, survived in out daily language as kissebissen, a word often heard when we were growing up and quarrelled about nothing worthwhile and were told not do so.
Pewit
n 1: small black-headed European gull [syn: laughing gull, blackcap,
pewit gull, Larus ridibundus]
2: large crested Old World plover having wattles and spurs
[syn: lapwing, green plover, peewit]
3: small olive-colored woodland flycatchers of eastern North
America [syn: pewee, peewee, peewit, wood pewee, Contopus
virens]We have a wetlands-bird called kievit.
Lapwings
are medium-sized wading birds belonging to the subfamily Vanellinae of the family Charadriidae, which also includes the plovers and dotterels. A lapwing can be thought of as a larger plover.
The definitions about the bird are not very clear, exept for that they refer to a little shore-side or wading bird. Many are classified under pewit or lapwing.
