Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A bird or an insect that chirps; one who chirps or is cheerful.
- noun A chirping cup; ‘the cup that cheers.’
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who chirps, or is cheerful.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A thing or animal that makes a chirping
sound . - noun Canada, slang, mildly derogatory A person who speaks with a
distinct English orWelsh accent .
Etymologies
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Examples
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My Twitter tagline is: "Mum, campaigner, writer: enthusiastic chirper, believer in good things."
Sarah Brown: 'I know in my bones we can win this fight to save the world's mothers' 2011
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The performers were squinty, scrunching their faces during performances that ranged from mawkish (Australian chirper Butterfly Boucher) to Fleetwood-mawkish (Illinois singer Lissie.)
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The performers were squinty, scrunching their faces during performances that ranged from mawkish (Australian chirper Butterfly Boucher) to Fleetwood-mawkish (Illinois singer Lissie).
Sarah McLachlan's Lilith Fair: Plenty of female singers, but no rappers or DJs 2010
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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.
Alfalfa 2009
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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.
Alfalfa Terese Svoboda 2009
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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" 2008
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I had a little yellow chirper in my house yesterday.
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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.
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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.
The Adventures of Maya the Bee Waldemar Bonsels 1919
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Ah, she is prettier than ever I supposed, and chirper than the sparrow which builds every year a nest in my old apple-tree.
The Old Stone House and Other Stories Anna Katharine Green 1890
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