[Echoic. Cf. WEET-WEET and TWEET.] a. int. An imitation of the cry of certain small birds. b. v. intr. Of a bird: To chirp or twitter. Hence Weeting ppl. a. Also Weet-bird, the wryneck.
1852. Zoologist, X. 3649. I was completely surrounded by curious, restless weeting little willow-wrens.
1863. Wise, New Forest, 186. The wry-neck … is in the Forest known as the ‘weet-bird,’ from its peculiar cry of ‘weet,’ which it will repeat at short intervals for an hour together.
a. 1897. Lady C. Gurdon, Suffolk Tales, etc., 160. A robin weeting or chirping at the window foretells a death in the house.
