Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Cheerful; lively; chirpy.
Wiktionary
- adj. making chirruping noises
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Cheerful; joyous; chatty.
Etymologies
- chirrup + -y (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Thank you, NaNoWriMo Master, for the motivation and THANK GOD I don't get those chirrupy messages argh!”
Today's Nanowrimo Inspirational Diatribe; Or, Don't Say We Never Did Anything For You
“From inside the pool house, she could hear the faint, chirrupy whisper of the ceiling fan.”
“Net article receiving lots of comments, nearly all predictably of the "shut up, I'm right" and "don't make trouble where there is one" and "you're an idiot and WikiChix suck" variety, this chirrupy commentary concluded thatthe blogosphere was notprimarily male dominated based on a seriesof scientifically-conductedcounts of blogs, topics and genders of contributors.”
“There's nothing like learning jujutsu from a chirrupy-voiced upperclass English lady, as seen in this classic video from 1931.”
“You soon learned to say “bye bye” to me in this chirrupy voice, opening and closing your hand to wave at me.”
“In short order she transforms the chirrupy Mary Whitehouse of those opening scenes into the steeliest of rebels with a cause.”
“But his spirit was bitter and sere without Oba-chama's bright eyes and chirrupy voice.”
“Cock Robin put his head first to one side, then to the other, and gave a funny, chirrupy laugh.”
“I share with the rest the memory of kind old hands grown motionless, and chirrupy old voices now stilled; so that some of these graves, turning slowly from raw soil to kindlier green, are mine, the stranger's.”
“He was thinking of Thursa's chirrupy little treble, which to him was the sweetest music on earth.”
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