chirr

verb
/t͡ʃɜː/UK/t͡ʃɝ/US/t͡ʃɪr/

Etymology

Imitative, ca. 1600. More at churr.

Definitions

  1. To make the prolonged trilling sound of an insect (e.g. a grasshopper, a cicada).

  2. The trilled sound made by an insect.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for chirr. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA