Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A harsh trilling sound, such as the one a cricket makes.
- intransitive verb To make a harsh trilling sound.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To murmur or coo as a pigeon.
- To utter a tremulous, rattling sound; make a shrill jarring noise, such as that made by the cricket or cicada; chirp.
- noun A monotonous, sharp, stridulous sound such as that made by the cricket or cicada.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb intransitive To make a prolonged
trilling sound of aninsect (e.g. agrasshopper , acicada ). - noun The
trilled sound made by aninsect .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb make a vibrant noise, of grasshoppers or cicadas
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Like a bad dream they faded away and the soothing chirr of the crickets returned and once again she slept.
Red Knife William Kent Krueger 2008
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Like a bad dream they faded away and the soothing chirr of the crickets returned and once again she slept.
Red Knife William Kent Krueger 2008
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Birdehs cum and eet deh seeds, kittehs watch frum windoze and chirr and make deh but wiggle ub doom at dem.
I will wait - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Like a bad dream they faded away and the soothing chirr of the crickets returned and once again she slept.
Red Knife William Kent Krueger 2008
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Like a bad dream they faded away and the soothing chirr of the crickets returned and once again she slept.
Red Knife William Kent Krueger 2008
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In the evening when the dogs howl and the crickets chirr, and the huge moon hoists above the hills, and in Argostoli the searchlights search for false alarms, I take my sweet Antonia.
Captain Corelli's Mandolin De Bernieres, Louis 2003
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She could hear the hiss of the ventilators, the faint, distant hum of the power conduits, and the soft chirr and beep as the computer finished the last complex set of calculations and presented its results.
Proud Helios Melissa Scott 2000
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They are wonderful and will always be associated in my mind with summer things-corn on the cob, watermelon, the nighttime chirr of crickets, the sound of my parents 'neighbor Mr. Piper arriving home late from one of his lodge meetings, parking his car with the aid of his garbage cans, then serenading Mr.. Piper with two choruses of "Rose of Seville" before settling down for a nap on the lawn.
I'm A Stranger Here Myself Bryson, Bill 1999
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The boy's piping, the wind in the lyre, and the chirr of crickets, all mingled with it; it was like the voice of the mountain.
The Bull From The Sea Renault, Mary 1962
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The soldier stood erect, gray-faced and immovable, his eyes fixed, his teeth set, his hand gripping the pike, till the insects, reassured, began to chirr close about him.
The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt Elizabeth Miller
slumry commented on the word chirr
Nice!
July 11, 2007
yarb commented on the word chirr
Not the faintest chirring of a cricket broke the silence. The bees were asleep. In the grasses, in the trees, deep in the calix of punka flower and magnolia bloom, the gnats, the caterpillars, the beetles, all the microscopic, multitudinous life of the daytime drowsed and dozed.
- Frank Norris, The Octopus, bk 2, ch. 3
August 26, 2008