Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A bird or an insect that chirps; one who chirps or is cheerful.
- n. A chirping cup; ‘the cup that cheers.’
Wiktionary
- n. A thing or animal that makes a chirping sound.
- n. Canada, slang, mildly derogatory A person who speaks with a distinct English or Welsh accent.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who chirps, or is cheerful.
Etymologies
- From chirp. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“My Twitter tagline is: "Mum, campaigner, writer: enthusiastic chirper, believer in good things.”
The Guardian: Sarah Brown: 'I know in my bones we can win this fight to save the world's mothers'
“The performers were squinty, scrunching their faces during performances that ranged from mawkish (Australian chirper Butterfly Boucher) to Fleetwood-mawkish (Illinois singer Lissie.)”
The Washington Post: In concert: Lilith Fair at Merriweather Post Pavilion
“The performers were squinty, scrunching their faces during performances that ranged from mawkish (Australian chirper Butterfly Boucher) to Fleetwood-mawkish (Illinois singer Lissie).”
The Washington Post: Sarah McLachlan's Lilith Fair: Plenty of female singers, but no rappers or DJs
“ But first Bugs sends us off to the pet stores to buy every last chirper and writher, and we also pay a visit to the bait shop because people do fish here.”
“But first Bugs sends us off to the pet stores to buy every last chirper and writher, and we also pay a visit to the bait shop because people do fish here.”
“Norton makes the occasional foray into new music, most notably with last year's brilliant album by Mary Weiss, the former chirper from girl-group legends the Shangri-Las.”
Tony Sachs: Norton Records' Rockin' Archaeologists Unearth "Mad Mike Monsters"
“I had a little yellow chirper in my house yesterday.”
“Of the cicada there are several kinds, and they differ from one another in relative magnitude, and in this respect that the achetes or chirper is provided with a cleft or aperture under the hypozoma and has in it a membrane quite discernible, whilst the membrane is indiscernible in the tettigonia.”
“When she touched the leaf, the chirper broke off playing abruptly, and to Maya it seemed as if there had never been such a stillness before, so profound was the hush that followed.”
“Ah, she is prettier than ever I supposed, and chirper than the sparrow which builds every year a nest in my old apple-tree.”
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