chirrup

Etymology

Definitions

1. 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. 2

   To express by chirping.

   • The crickets chirruped their song.
   • 'Busy, Max?' chirruped the familiar voice of his friend the inquiry agent—incurably brisk and debonair even after its ten miles' journey along the wire.
3. 3

   To quicken or animate by chirping.

   • to chirrup a horse
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   1. 4

      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.
      • the slight chirrup of a stoppered phial being opened
   2. 5

      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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