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Chirrup

//ˈt͡ʃɪɹəp// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 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 […]"

  2. 2
    a series of chirps wordnet
  3. 3
    A brief, high-pitched, insignificant statement. derogatory, figuratively

    "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."

Verb
  1. 1
    To make a series of chirps, clicks, or clucks. intransitive

    "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!"

  2. 2
    make high-pitched sounds wordnet
  3. 3
    To express by chirping. transitive

    "The crickets chirruped their song."

  4. 4
    To quicken or animate by chirping. transitive

    "to chirrup a horse"

Etymology

Etymology 1

Variant of chirp.

Etymology 2

Variant of chirp.

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