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Chirpy   /tʃˈərpi/   Listen
Chirpy

adjective
1.
(birds or insects) characterized by or tending to chirp.
2.
Characterized by liveliness and lightheartedness.  Synonyms: buoyant, perky.  "His quick wit and chirpy humor" , "Looking bright and well and chirpy" , "A perky little widow in her 70s"





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"Chirpy" Quotes from Famous Books



... getting from Devonshire into Cornwall, so of course we just missed a boat and had to wait half an hour. I was dying to go to sleep, but the others were as chirpy as possible, gabbling Cornish legends. When I say the "others," I mean Sir Lionel and Ellaline Lethbridge. I didn't know any legends, but I made up several on the spur of the moment, much more exciting than theirs, ...
— Set in Silver • Charles Norris Williamson and Alice Muriel Williamson
... went and called on FitzGerald's old housekeeper, Mrs Howe, and her husband. She the "Fairy Godmother," as FitzGerald delighted to call her, was blithe and chirpy as ever, with pleasant talk of "our gentleman": "So kind he was, not never one to make no obstacles. Such a joky gentleman he was, too. Why, once he says to me, 'Mrs Howe, I didn't know we had express trains here.' And I said, 'Whatever do ...
— Two Suffolk Friends • Francis Hindes Groome


Words linked to "Chirpy" :   chirpiness, perky, bird, insect, chirp, cheerful


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