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third-person singular simple present cheeps, present participle cheeping, simple past and past participle cheeped
Of a small bird, to make short, high-pitched sounds. quotations examples
[…] a brood of ducklings, which had lost their mother, filed into the barn, cheeping feebly and wandering from side to side […]
1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962
To express in a chirping tone. quotations examples
O Swallow, Swallow, if I could follow, and light / Upon her lattice, I would pipe and trill, / And cheep and twitter twenty million loves.
1847, Tennyson, “O Swallow, Swallow, flying South”, in The Princess, lines 7–9
plural cheeps
A short, high-pitched sound made by a small bird. examples
A similar-sounding short high-pitched sound quotations examples
The radiation trackers clipped to our protective overalls let off soft cheeps, their frequency varying as radioactivity levels changed around us.
December 15 2022, Samanth Subramanian, “Dismantling Sellafield: the epic task of shutting down a nuclear site”, in The Guardian
The short, high-pitched sound made by a small bird. examples