chirp

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  1. noun A short, high-pitched sound, such as that made by a small bird or an insect.
  2. intransitive verb To make a short, high-pitched sound.

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  • Then the cricket came in with its chirp, chirp, chirp, and at it they went in fierce rivalry until 'the kettle, being dead beat, boiled over, and was taken off the fire Dickens was certainly partial to the cricket, for elsewhere ( M.H.C.) —  Charles Dickens and Music
  • - Twitter reference: & * chirp is a WPF Twitter app which has seem to be getting quite a bit of good press from people I follow on Twitter. —  Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now
  • Early risers among them first began to chirp, and scream, and whistle their morning song,--for there are lazy ones among the birds, just as there are among men. —  Away in the Wilderness
  • A crested bird hopped to the window-sill with a chirp, then darted off through the quivering air with a glint of sunlight from his flashing wings. —  Lords of the North
  • It is so sweet to hear the birds chirp, and the distant hum of human voices--but language fails! —  Louis' School Days A Story for Boys
 

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Etymologies (4)

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  1. Middle English *chirpen, of imitative origin.

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  1. from Middle English chirpen, chyrpen (= German zirpen, schirpen), chirp, an imitative word, a variation of chirken: see chirk, and cf. cheep, chip, etc. Lengthened forms are chirrup, cherup, cheerup: see these words, and chirr.
  2. from chirp, v.
  3. Cf. chirp, v., cheerup, and chirk.
 

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