What does chirrup mean?
Chirrup means (intransitive) To make a series of chirps, clicks, or clucks..
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/ˈt͡ʃɪɹəp/ · verb
(intransitive) To make a series of chirps, clicks, or clucks..
When other folks' squirrels are at home and asleep, yourn keep in motion among the trees and chirrup and sing, in a way that even a Delaware gal can understand their music!
Face Eater Cat is a very happy, healthy animal who's found her forever home, and she chirrups along when serenaded with eighties hits. It's a match made in heaven.
The crickets chirruped their song.
'Busy, Max?' chirruped the familiar voice of his friend the inquiry agent—incurably brisk and debonair even after its ten miles' journey along the wire.
to chirrup a horse
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 […]
[…] the music flashed by in delirious chirrups and stampings.
the slight chirrup of a stoppered phial being opened
Use chirrup when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Chirrup means (intransitive) To make a series of chirps, clicks, or clucks..
Common synonyms include twitter, cheep, twirp, chirp.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
When other folks' squirrels are at home and asleep, yourn keep in motion among the trees and chirrup and sing, in a way that even a Delaware gal can understand their music!
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