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third-person singular simple present chirrups, present participle chirruping, simple past and past participle chirruped
(intransitive) To make a series of chirps, clicks, or clucks. quotations examples
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!
1841, James Fenimore Cooper, chapter 17, in The Deerslayer: Or, the First War-path
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.
2022 July 23, “A She-Cat Tamed By The Purr Of Her Humans”, in Not Always Right, archived from the original on 11 December 2022
(transitive) To express by chirping. examples
(transitive) To quicken or animate by chirping. examples
plural chirrups
A series of chirps, clicks or clucks. quotations examples
And here, if you like, the Cricket DID chime in! with a Chirrup, Chirrup, Chirrup of such magnitude, by way of chorus […]
1845 Charles Dickens, The Cricket on the Hearth, Chirp the First
[…] the music flashed by in delirious chirrups and stampings.
2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 9, in The Line of Beauty […], 1st US edition, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Publishing
(figurative, derogatory) A brief, high-pitched, insignificant statement. quotations examples
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.
1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London, New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton
“ […] Children, say ‘thank you’ to Mrs. Samuel Josephs.” Two subdued chirrups: “Thank you, Mrs. Samuel Josephs.”
1918 June, Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “Prelude”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London: Constable & Company, published 1920, page 2