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chirrup

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chir·rup  (chûrp, chr-)
v. chir·ruped, chir·rup·ing, chir·rups
v.intr.
1. To utter a series of chirps.
2. To make clucking or clicking sounds with the lips, as in urging on a horse.
v.tr.
1. To sound with chirps.
2. To make clucking sounds to.
n.
1. A series of chirps.
2. A series of clucks or clicking sounds, such as those made to urge on a horse.

[Variant of chirp.]

chirrup
Verb
(of some birds) to chirp repeatedly
Noun
a chirruping sound [variant of chirp]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.chirrupchirrup - a series of chirps                  
sound - the sudden occurrence of an audible event; "the sound awakened them"
Verb1.chirrupchirrup - make high-pitched sounds; "the birds were chirping in the bushes"
let loose, let out, utter, emit - express audibly; utter sounds (not necessarily words); "She let out a big heavy sigh"; "He uttered strange sounds that nobody could understand"
chitter, twitter - make high-pitched sounds, as of birds


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The next minute Jerry was on the box; with a cheery chirrup to me, and a twitch of the rein that I well understood.
For an hour or more that evening I listened to his monotonous chirrup about bad money driving out good, the token value of silver, the depreciation of the rupee, and the true standards of exchange.
Such were still his thoughts more than a full hour afterwards, when, supper over, he still sat with shining jovial face in the same warm nook, listening to the cricket-like chirrup of little Solomon Daisy, and bearing no unimportant or slightly respected part in the social gossip round the Maypole fire.
 
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