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Chirp

noun

A sharp sound made by small birds or insects.

verb

(past & past part. chirped; pres. part. chirping)

Make high-pitched sounds. Synonyms: cheep, chirrup, peep.

Sing in modulation. Synonym: tweedle.

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"Chirp" Quotes from Famous Books

... great thing in that emptiness. I note the feeling the more readily as it is the contrary of what I have read of in the experience of others. Day and night, above the roar of the train, our ears were kept busy with the incessant chirp of grasshoppers - a noise like the winding up of countless clocks and watches, which began after a while to seem ...

— Across The Plains • Robert Louis Stevenson

... the meadow, Where the grass is so even, Lived a gray mother cricket And her little crickets seven. "Chirp!" said the mother; "We chirp," said the seven: So they chirped cheery notes In the ...

— Boys and Girls Bookshelf; a Practical Plan of Character Building, Volume I (of 17) - Fun and Thought for Little Folk • Various

... a chirp or two, and then the bird thrust up its head, and out came the full blessedness of its ...

— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker

... chirp of surprise and terror at the strange new world, fluttered in a circle, spread his wings at last ...

— The Victim - A romance of the Real Jefferson Davis • Thomas Dixon

... and four the next morning, the robin in the nest above Mary's window stretched out his left wing, opened one eye, and gave a short and rather drowsy chirp, which broke up his night's rest and restored him to the full consciousness that he was a bird with wings and feathers, with a large apple-tree to live in, and all heaven for an estate,—and so, on these fortunate premises, he broke into a gush of singing, clear and ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 4, No. 24, Oct. 1859 • Various

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