chirrup

UK /ˈt͡ʃɪɹəp/ US /ˈt͡ʃɪɹəp/
verb 3noun 2

Definitions

verb

1

To make a series of chirps, clicks, or clucks.

When other folks' squirrels are at home and asleep, yourn keep in motion among the trees and chirrup and sing, in a way that even a Delaware gal can understand their music!

Face Eater Cat is a very happy, healthy animal who's found her forever home, and she chirrups along when serenaded with eighties hits. It's a match made in heaven.

2

To express by chirping.

The crickets chirruped their song.

3

To quicken or animate by chirping.

to chirrup a horse

noun

1

A series of chirps, clicks or clucks.

1845 Charles Dickens, The Cricket on the Hearth, Chirp the First, And here, if you like, the Cricket DID chime in! with a Chirrup, Chirrup, Chirrup of such magnitude, by way of chorus […]

[…] the music flashed by in delirious chirrups and stampings.

2

A brief, high-pitched, insignificant statement.

For an hour or more that evening I listened to his monotonous chirrup about bad money driving out good, the token value of silver, the depreciation of the rupee, and the true standards of exchange.

“[…]Children, say ‘thank you’ to Mrs. Samuel Josephs.” Two subdued chirrups: “Thank you, Mrs. Samuel Josephs.”

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