Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete spelling of
chirm .
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Examples
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The bumbees were bizzing among the gowans and bluebells; and a thousand wee birds among the green trees were churm-churming away, filling earth and air with music, as it were a universal hymn of gratitude to the Creator for his unbounded goodness to all his creatures.
The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself David Macbeth Moir 1824
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The bumbees were bizzing among the gowans and blue-bells; and a thousand wee birds among the green trees were churm-churming away, filling earth and air with music, as it were a universal hymn of gratitude to the Creator for his unbounded goodness to all his creatures.
The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith David Macbeth Moir 1824
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"Some people write every day, just churm out a lot of material," Hughes said in a recent phone chat.
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a wee among the scenes of peace and quietness, where nature is in a way wild and wanton -- where the clouds above our heads seem to sail along more grandly over the bosom of the sky, and the wee birds to cheep and churm, from the hedges among the fields, with greater pleasure, feeling that they are God's free creatures.
The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself David Macbeth Moir 1824
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a wee among the scenes of peace and quietness, where nature is in a way wild and wanton -- where the clouds above our heads seem to sail along more grandly over the bosom of the sky, and the wee birds to cheep and churm, from the hedges among the fields, with greater pleasure, feeling that they are God's free creatures.
The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith David Macbeth Moir 1824
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