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In some senses, chirrup is marked as derogatory, figuratively. Watch for register when choosing this word.
verb
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.
To express by chirping.
The crickets chirruped their song.
To quicken or animate by chirping.
to chirrup a horse
noun
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.
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.”