Chirrup

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • verb-intransitive. To utter a series of chirps.
  • verb-intransitive. To make clucking or clicking sounds with the lips, as in urging on a horse.
  • v. To sound with chirps.
  • v. To make clucking sounds to.
  • n. A series of chirps.
  • n. A series of clucks or clicking sounds, such as those made to urge on a horse.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To make a series of chirps, clicks or clucks
  • n. A series of chirps, clicks or clucks
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To quicken or animate by chirping; to cherup.
  • verb-intransitive. To chirp.
  • n. The act of chirping; a chirp.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To chirp.
  • n. A chirp.
  • To quicken, enliven, or animate, as by making a chirping sound; cherup: as, to chirrup one's horses.
  • To cheer or applaud (a public singer or the like, and for pay).
  • To produce or utter chirpingly.
  • To produce with compressed lips and suction a sharp explosive chirping sound by way of greeting or pleasing an infant or a cage-bird, or of coaxing and encouraging a dog or a horse, etc.
  • To converse or sing in a lively manner or in sprightly tones.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. make high-pitched sounds
  • n. a series of chirps
  • Verb Form
    chirruped    chirruping    chirrups   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    sound   
    Form
    chirruped    chirruping   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    cherup    chirp    chir   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    cheep    chirp    cluck    chirruping    threnody    meow    whir    clunk    chittering    gurgle