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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

... then, yesterday, sweet child, Prattling thus happily! So fledglings wild, New-hatched in warmer nest 'neath sheltering bough, Chirp merrily to feel their feathers grow. Your mouth's a rose, Jeanne! In these volumes grand Whose pictures please you—while I trembling stand To see their big leaves tattered by your hand— Are noble lines; but nothing half your worth, When all your tiny frame ...

— Poems • Victor Hugo

... soft twilight of a summer's morning, and the little birds had begun to chirp their matins, and the lark to brush the dew from her speckled breast, waiting for the first gaze of the sun. The old man pressed the infant closer to his bosom as he drew nigh to the steep acclivity, the solitary dwelling of the eagle. He kissed the babe; then looking round, fearful of intruders, ...

— Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2) • John Roby

... Godfrey exclaimed as he was about to speak. "I heard a bird chirp." The sound was repeated. "It is over there," Godfrey said. "Hurrah! we shall soon be ashore," and they seized ...

— Condemned as a Nihilist - A Story of Escape from Siberia • George Alfred Henty

... to threaten the desk to whisper to swell to chirp sneering more and more he climbed the pulpit steps they never did me ...

— Le Petit Chose (part 1) - Histoire d'un Enfant • Alphonse Daudet

... marvellous days are here; Warm on my cheek the sunshine burns, And fledged birds chirp, and far and near Floats the ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, Number 59, September, 1862 • Various

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