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Definitions
Wiktionary
- v. present participle of chirrup.
Etymologies
- Variant of chirp.
Examples
“Your own persevering chirruping is (in my humble judgment) so out of character with a season, in which every wise creature must be apprehensive for the future, that I can only excuse it on the ground of an ignorance and levity, which you have had no opportunity of correcting.”
“The three had opened their eyes soon after daybreak and lay in their cots "chirruping," as their mother called it -- talking, planning out a campaign of adventures for the long two days before them.”
“A lamb is bleating out there on the dim moor; a bird somewhere, a little one, about three fields away, makes the sweetest kind of chirruping; some cows are still cropping.”
“The audiobook begins and ends with the a chorus of chirruping birds, as the reader imagines the reddish brown thick trunks reaching from the fertile earth to the cloudy heavens.”
“To the sound of waves lapping on the shore and the relentless chirruping of cicadas, the world-famous El Bulli restaurant of Spanish chef Ferran Adrià closed its doors.”
The Guardian: How a wartime romance gave birth to the best restaurant in the world
“In fact, crickets and grasshoppers are so sensitive to temperature they can even be used as a thermometer, by counting their chirruping.”
The Guardian: Weatherwatch: how to use a cricket as a thermometer
“How d'ye like 'em?" he asked, changing the reins to both hands and chirruping the horses, which went out with a jerk in an immediacy of action that was new to her.”
“For a time they sat about, all pulling at clay pipes and chirruping and laughing in queer thin falsettos at the events of the night and the previous afternoon.”
“They are a teeny-tiny chorus chirruping High School Musical songs, and a gaggle who, avid for experience, heartlessly hoover up the lives around them.”
“They head off over the sea in a loose group of chirruping individuals, their behaviour in sharp contrast to the more usual flocks of waders that act in unison, flying and wheeling like a well-drilled unit.”
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