Meaning

2 senses

  1. A series of chirps, clicks or clucks.

    1845 Charles Dickens, The Cricket on the Hearth, Chirp the First, And here, if you like, the Cricket DID chime in! with a Chirrup, Chirrup, Chirrup of such magnitude, by way of chorus […]

    Geklicker, Klackern, Gepfeife

    a series of chirps

  2. (derogatory, figuratively)A brief, high-pitched, insignificant statement.

    Geschnatter, Gegacker, Gepiepse

Examples

1 sentences

  1. For an hour or more that evening I listened to his monotonous chirrup.

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Translations

1 languages
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By meaning 4
A series of chirps, clicks or clucks (of technical or other origin):
A series of chirps, clicks or clucks (birds):
A series of chirps, clicks or clucks (insects, esp. crickets):
A brief, high-pitched, insignificant statement (metaphorical):

Origin

Variant of chirp.

Variant of chirp.

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Forms

plural: chirrups
Singularchirrup
Pluralchirrups

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
chirochiropractorchirpA2chiselC1chit

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