Chirrup

Word CHIRRUP
Character 7
Hyphenation chir rup
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Chirrup"

What do we mean by chirrup?

To utter a series of chirps. intransitive verb

To make clucking or clicking sounds with the lips, as in urging on a horse. intransitive verb

To sound with chirps. intransitive verb

To make clucking sounds to. intransitive verb

A series of chirps. noun

A series of clucks or clicking sounds, such as those made to urge on a horse. noun

To chirp.

A chirp. noun

To cheer or applaud (a public singer or the like, and for pay).

To produce or utter chirpingly.

To produce with compressed lips and suction a sharp explosive chirping sound by way of greeting or pleasing an infant or a cage-bird, or of coaxing and encouraging a dog or a horse, etc.

To converse or sing in a lively manner or in sprightly tones.

To quicken, enliven, or animate, as by making a chirping sound; cherup: as, to chirrup one's horses.

To chirp. intransitive verb

The act of chirping; a chirp. noun

To quicken or animate by chirping; to cherup. transitive verb

To make a series of chirps, clicks or clucks verb

A series of chirps, clicks or clucks noun

Make high-pitched sounds verb

A series of chirps noun

A series of chirps, clicks or clucks.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Chirrup

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The word "chirrup" in example sentences

Esther works on maintaining her attention only in the present; there is always the now—an endlessly adjusting smell of the wind, the shining of the stars, the deep five-call chirrup chirrup of the cicadas in the park. ❋ Anthony Doerr (2010)

Again, it should be known that the conventional "chirrup" (7) to quiet and "cluck" to rouse a horse are a sort of precept of the training school; and supposing any one from the beginning chose to associate soft soothing actions with the "cluck" sound, and harsh rousing actions with the "chirrup," the horse could be taught to rouse himself at the ❋ 431 BC-350? BC Xenophon (1874)

At night other sounds are heard, less agreeable to the ear: the shrill "chirrup" of cicadas and tree-toads ringing so incessantly, that only when they cease do you become conscious of their existence; the dull "gluck-gluck" of the great bullfrog; the sharp cries of the heron and _qua-bird_; and the sepulchral screech of the great horned owl. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)

A "chirrup" can be sounded if pedestrians or cyclists seem unaware of its presence. ❋ Stephen Rees Blog (2010)

He slightly slacked the reins on the restless, head-tossing animals, and without need of chirrup they took the weight of the light vehicle and passed up the hill and apprehensively on the inside of the purring machine. ❋ Unknown (2010)

They chitter, chatter and chirrup, twitching their tails as if they were furry lariats. ❋ Unknown (2011)

For an hour, our group wandered round Pripyat, stepping over broken glass and lumps of wood and stone, with the constant chirrup of our radiation counters providing warnings if we strayed too far. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Between each chirrup in a chorus of spring peepers, tiny pauses. ❋ Unknown (2009)

A “chirrup” can be sounded if pedestrians or cyclists seem unaware of its presence. ❋ Unknown (2010)

They will chirrup their protestations to the last breath. ❋ Newmania (2008)

It is at this stage that Zombie Isner starts to look like Zombie Mahut and the Zombie Umpire stops croaking and starts to chirrup like a grasshopper. ❋ Xan Brooks At Wimbledon (2010)

Decade after decade, poetry slips into its fifteen-hundred-copy-print-run oblivion and scattered identities on the Internet, and we hear not one chirrup about it from the leading thinkers or writers who have access to a dialogue with the greater public. ❋ Unknown (2010)

 She asked how she could help Sophie, another chirrup in the song, and looked up at her. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Of course, it's easy enough to chirrup away on Today about the euro's problems, pretending that, at this end of Europe, it's only a question of "In or out?" ❋ Unknown (2010)

These stir and chirrup and click like safes opening in old movies we have just seen for the first time in black and white or like a brush across a drum someone is bringing out now, is brushing, is now pounding, they stir because the night is warm and the fridge is cold and what are they doing there on the table and not out in the field, alighting and alerting each other? ❋ Unknown (2009)

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