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Cheep

//t͡ʃiːp// intj, noun, verb

Definitions

Intj
  1. 1
    The short, high-pitched sound made by a small bird.
Noun
  1. 1
    A short, high-pitched sound made by a small bird.
  2. 2
    the short weak cry of a young bird wordnet
  3. 3
    A similar-sounding short high-pitched sound

    "The radiation trackers clipped to our protective overalls let off soft cheeps, their frequency varying as radioactivity levels changed around us."

Verb
  1. 1
    Of a small bird, to make short, high-pitched sounds.

    "[…] a brood of ducklings, which had lost their mother, filed into the barn, cheeping feebly and wandering from side to side […]"

  2. 2
    make high-pitched sounds wordnet
  3. 3
    To express in a chirping tone.

    "O Swallow, Swallow, if I could follow, and light / Upon her lattice, I would pipe and trill, / And cheep and twitter twenty million loves."

Etymology

Etymology 1

Onomatopoeic.

Etymology 2

Onomatopoeic.

Etymology 3

Onomatopoeic.

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