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Definition of chirrup in English: chirrupverbchirruping, chirruped, chirrups ˈtʃɪrəpˈtʃɪrəp [no object]1(of a small bird) make repeated short, high-pitched sounds. （尤指小鸟）唧唧叫；鸣啭 a bird chirruped intermittently outside Example sentencesExamples - A sparrow chirrups on the rooftop next to me, and a bee carelessly buzzes into the honeysuckle growing down my wall.
- Outside, a bird chirruped extra loud and he covered his ears with a scowl.
- The sound of crickets chirruping in the bushes to the side of the porch adds to the appeal of the Spring time night.
- Via this intensive but bleary-eyed study, I've noticed with alarm that the warbling and chirruping of some birds increasingly resembles the ring tones of some mobile phones.
- Instead, at least in its opening bars, the song of the Green Dolphin chirrups along like the opening animation of The Donna Reed Show.
- Fingers of morning light were gracing the eastern sky and birds were beginning to fidget and chirrup in the trees.
- They sat there in the dying sunlight as the birds chirruped in the trees.
- In the branches above him birds chirruped, startling him.
- A bird chirruped from the boughs of a nearby tree.
- Maybe it's the seductive chirruping of cicadas in the cypress trees.
- Families of busy mynahs chirruped, foraged for grasshoppers, and then trilled when they took wing as we approached.
- The leaves did not stir on the trees, grasshoppers chirruped, and the monotonous hollow sound of the sea rising up from below, spoke of the peace, of the eternal sleep awaiting us.
- The air is full of the smell of honeysuckle, the buzzing of bees, the chirruping of bluebirds, and the sizzling of meat.
- No life was visible - no birds chirruped in the matchstick trees, no children laughed among the remnants of the blaze.
- The sound of crickets chirruping filled the still air.
- It was utterly, silent, too - no bird calls or insect chirrups disturbed the sandy desert.
- Outside, the crickets chirrup incessantly in the humid Indian night.
- The grass shifted and chirruping sounded in the distance, ringing through the forest.
- Crickets were chirruping idly in the trees, and in the distance, I could see a small child playing with abandoned armaments.
- A owl hooted in the distance and the crickets chirruped.
Synonyms trill, sing, chirp, chirrup, chirr, cheep, twitter, tweet, whistle, chatter, squeak, pipe, peep trill, trilling, song, birdsong, cry, warbling, chirp, chirping, chirrup, chirruping, chirr, chirring, cheep, cheeping, twitter, twittering, tweet, tweeting, whistle, whistling, chatter, chattering, squeak, squeaking, pipe, piping, peep, peeping, call, calling - 1.1with direct speech (of a person) say something in a high-pitched voice.
（人）尖声说 ‘Yes, Miss Honey,’ chirruped eighteen voices “是的，哈尼小姐”，18副嗓子同时尖声说道。 Example sentencesExamples - One of the girls, apparently thinking she had been struck by a stroke of brilliance chirruped, ‘Oh!’
- It's the least I can do,’ Faith chirruped, her eyes wide and bright.
- ‘I'm thinking medical,’ Faith chirruped brightly.
- ‘Well, your friends, they're nice,’ Trey chirruped, deciding he would break the ice.
- He's not from England, has visa problems, has money problems, has four kids back home: ‘Love will find a way,’ she chirrups to me.
- Margo MacDonald chirrups: ‘Keep a pure heart, an insatiable curiosity and a good hairdresser.’
- ‘Excellent, Princess Emmeline,’ The first nymph chirruped brightly.
- ‘And I would like to point out I can use guitar string as garrote wire,’ Val chirruped almost pleasantly, though the half-berserk glimmer in his eyes warned of sincerity.
- ‘Good morning,’ he chirruped, looking way too adorable to be real.
- ‘Yeah, it's been a good conference, a very good one, actually,’ he chirruped on Thursday morning.
- ‘A pretty penny for the NHS,’ it chirruped the day after the budget.
- ‘Oh, that must be her,’ Mr. Larsin chirruped and jumped out of his seat to answer the door.
- ‘Let me continue to look for joy,’ she chirrups in her Hootsmon on Sunday product-placement column.
- ‘Mr. Duvall, it's no problem for me, but four o'clock, I will be back,’ she chirruped and then left the area.
- ‘Of course, no trouble at all,’ Wendy Barrett had chirruped over the phone when I'd asked her if I could specially order a weekday dinner - normally it's weekends only at Augill Castle.
- ‘Ooh, thank god, it's Friday,’ Faith chirruped, but the real deal was she wasn't looking very cheery.
- ‘This is Isaac - I expect you to treat him with the same respect as your peers,’ she chirruped, and then pointed to the empty desk behind me where Rachael usually sat.
- ‘Thank you for letting me stay over, Mrs. Ratana,’ Kira chirruped politely, bowing slightly to Rebecca.
- ‘Goodness, darling, that up-and-coming young Turk John Major has some sock suspenders exactly like yours,’ she might have chirruped in an unguarded moment.
nounPlural chirrups ˈtʃɪrəpˈtʃɪrəp A short, high-pitched sound. 吱吱声；啧啧声 the chirrups of the crickets Example sentencesExamples - At that moment, the ship's interface gave a loud chirrup.
- A progressive chirrup let us know we had been confirmed.
- He sits there for a while, as if wondering whether or not to go back to bed, then opens his beak for an experimental chirrup.
- Outside, the monotonous chirrup of crickets and other night insects formed a gentle hum.
- The usual chirrup of crickets down below filled Lily's ears, but as she glanced up at the stars, vaguely picking Ursa Major out of the bunch, she suddenly felt D.J.'s arm wrap around her.
- ‘Battery's getting low,’ he said, as the phone uttered a brief chirrup.
- He heard the familiar chirrup of one of those stupid walkie-talkie/cell phones.
- In the big, well-insulated A4, this turbo powerplant mustered a mild chirrup when the waste-gates opened.
- The meadow was silent save for the chirrups of crickets.
- Super-dry jazz hi-hat work mixes with offhand synth-bass and slivered chirrups of sound sliced thin enough to be just impossible to place.
- That isn't traffic noise one can hear above the chirrup of the insects, is it?
- At the sound of a trilling chirrup, his eyes jerked up.
- A nurse from Kerala fluttered into the room, adding sparrowy chirrups of complaint to the aviary of sounds I could already hear.
- A thousand frogs who had been silent for two years were calling to each other in the wash… a monumental chorus of deep lusty ba-booms, frenzied clicks and seductive chirrups.
- Boost targeted urban youth with such success that the chirrup is now featured in hip hop videos.
- American actors doing upper-class British voices habitually only manage them at about two-thirds speed, much slower than the quick chirrup of the real thing.
- The music of the spheres turns out to be a mixture of whistles, chirrups, howls, static and something that sounds like chattering voices.
- Creaky pylons and insect chirrups fill the periphery; Frisell is beginning to be unpredictable again…
- Another pair of wings momentarily blinded her, and every bird that had occupied the tree suddenly left in a rush, loud chirrups marking their way.
- Oh and there's also a chirrup like a clockwork cicada in there.
Synonyms trill, trilling, song, birdsong, cry, warbling, chirp, chirping, chirrup, chirruping, chirr, chirring, cheep, cheeping, twitter, twittering, tweet, tweeting, whistle, whistling, chatter, chattering, squeak, squeaking, pipe, piping, peep, peeping, call, calling
Derivativesadjective Meanwhile, strange chirrupy sounds draw me to the puppet show dais! Example sentencesExamples - His chirrupy letters to Hofmannsthal make no mention of the trauma he was going through, namely that the text was triggering deep anxieties deriving from his own ambivalent attitude towards his parents.
- Festive sprays of leaf and berry heighten the bright and breezy feel of this sub-Saharan Dinky-Dell, and enhance its Greeting Card air of chirrupy good cheer.
OriginLate 16th century: alteration of chirp, by trilling the -r-. Definition of chirrup in US English: chirrupverbˈtʃɪrəpˈCHirəp [no object]1(especially of a small bird) make repeated short high-pitched sounds; twitter. （尤指小鸟）唧唧叫；鸣啭 Example sentencesExamples - The leaves did not stir on the trees, grasshoppers chirruped, and the monotonous hollow sound of the sea rising up from below, spoke of the peace, of the eternal sleep awaiting us.
- A owl hooted in the distance and the crickets chirruped.
- No life was visible - no birds chirruped in the matchstick trees, no children laughed among the remnants of the blaze.
- Families of busy mynahs chirruped, foraged for grasshoppers, and then trilled when they took wing as we approached.
- The sound of crickets chirruping filled the still air.
- Maybe it's the seductive chirruping of cicadas in the cypress trees.
- The air is full of the smell of honeysuckle, the buzzing of bees, the chirruping of bluebirds, and the sizzling of meat.
- It was utterly, silent, too - no bird calls or insect chirrups disturbed the sandy desert.
- In the branches above him birds chirruped, startling him.
- Fingers of morning light were gracing the eastern sky and birds were beginning to fidget and chirrup in the trees.
- Via this intensive but bleary-eyed study, I've noticed with alarm that the warbling and chirruping of some birds increasingly resembles the ring tones of some mobile phones.
- The sound of crickets chirruping in the bushes to the side of the porch adds to the appeal of the Spring time night.
- The grass shifted and chirruping sounded in the distance, ringing through the forest.
- Outside, the crickets chirrup incessantly in the humid Indian night.
- Crickets were chirruping idly in the trees, and in the distance, I could see a small child playing with abandoned armaments.
- Instead, at least in its opening bars, the song of the Green Dolphin chirrups along like the opening animation of The Donna Reed Show.
- A bird chirruped from the boughs of a nearby tree.
- A sparrow chirrups on the rooftop next to me, and a bee carelessly buzzes into the honeysuckle growing down my wall.
- They sat there in the dying sunlight as the birds chirruped in the trees.
- Outside, a bird chirruped extra loud and he covered his ears with a scowl.
Synonyms trill, sing, chirp, chirrup, chirr, cheep, twitter, tweet, whistle, chatter, squeak, pipe, peep trill, trilling, song, birdsong, cry, warbling, chirp, chirping, chirrup, chirruping, chirr, chirring, cheep, cheeping, twitter, twittering, tweet, tweeting, whistle, whistling, chatter, chattering, squeak, squeaking, pipe, piping, peep, peeping, call, calling - 1.1with direct speech (of a person) say something in a high-pitched voice.
（人）尖声说 “Yes, Miss Honey,” chirruped eighteen voices “是的，哈尼小姐”，18副嗓子同时尖声说道。 Example sentencesExamples - ‘Goodness, darling, that up-and-coming young Turk John Major has some sock suspenders exactly like yours,’ she might have chirruped in an unguarded moment.
- ‘Oh, that must be her,’ Mr. Larsin chirruped and jumped out of his seat to answer the door.
- One of the girls, apparently thinking she had been struck by a stroke of brilliance chirruped, ‘Oh!’
- ‘And I would like to point out I can use guitar string as garrote wire,’ Val chirruped almost pleasantly, though the half-berserk glimmer in his eyes warned of sincerity.
- ‘This is Isaac - I expect you to treat him with the same respect as your peers,’ she chirruped, and then pointed to the empty desk behind me where Rachael usually sat.
- ‘Mr. Duvall, it's no problem for me, but four o'clock, I will be back,’ she chirruped and then left the area.
- ‘Let me continue to look for joy,’ she chirrups in her Hootsmon on Sunday product-placement column.
- ‘Yeah, it's been a good conference, a very good one, actually,’ he chirruped on Thursday morning.
- Margo MacDonald chirrups: ‘Keep a pure heart, an insatiable curiosity and a good hairdresser.’
- ‘I'm thinking medical,’ Faith chirruped brightly.
- ‘Well, your friends, they're nice,’ Trey chirruped, deciding he would break the ice.
- ‘Excellent, Princess Emmeline,’ The first nymph chirruped brightly.
- ‘Ooh, thank god, it's Friday,’ Faith chirruped, but the real deal was she wasn't looking very cheery.
- ‘Of course, no trouble at all,’ Wendy Barrett had chirruped over the phone when I'd asked her if I could specially order a weekday dinner - normally it's weekends only at Augill Castle.
- He's not from England, has visa problems, has money problems, has four kids back home: ‘Love will find a way,’ she chirrups to me.
- ‘A pretty penny for the NHS,’ it chirruped the day after the budget.
- ‘Good morning,’ he chirruped, looking way too adorable to be real.
- ‘Thank you for letting me stay over, Mrs. Ratana,’ Kira chirruped politely, bowing slightly to Rebecca.
- It's the least I can do,’ Faith chirruped, her eyes wide and bright.
nounˈtʃɪrəpˈCHirəp A short, high-pitched sound. 吱吱声；啧啧声 Example sentencesExamples - At that moment, the ship's interface gave a loud chirrup.
- American actors doing upper-class British voices habitually only manage them at about two-thirds speed, much slower than the quick chirrup of the real thing.
- The usual chirrup of crickets down below filled Lily's ears, but as she glanced up at the stars, vaguely picking Ursa Major out of the bunch, she suddenly felt D.J.'s arm wrap around her.
- Outside, the monotonous chirrup of crickets and other night insects formed a gentle hum.
- That isn't traffic noise one can hear above the chirrup of the insects, is it?
- The music of the spheres turns out to be a mixture of whistles, chirrups, howls, static and something that sounds like chattering voices.
- In the big, well-insulated A4, this turbo powerplant mustered a mild chirrup when the waste-gates opened.
- Creaky pylons and insect chirrups fill the periphery; Frisell is beginning to be unpredictable again…
- He sits there for a while, as if wondering whether or not to go back to bed, then opens his beak for an experimental chirrup.
- Oh and there's also a chirrup like a clockwork cicada in there.
- Boost targeted urban youth with such success that the chirrup is now featured in hip hop videos.
- A nurse from Kerala fluttered into the room, adding sparrowy chirrups of complaint to the aviary of sounds I could already hear.
- Super-dry jazz hi-hat work mixes with offhand synth-bass and slivered chirrups of sound sliced thin enough to be just impossible to place.
- At the sound of a trilling chirrup, his eyes jerked up.
- A thousand frogs who had been silent for two years were calling to each other in the wash… a monumental chorus of deep lusty ba-booms, frenzied clicks and seductive chirrups.
- A progressive chirrup let us know we had been confirmed.
- ‘Battery's getting low,’ he said, as the phone uttered a brief chirrup.
- He heard the familiar chirrup of one of those stupid walkie-talkie/cell phones.
- Another pair of wings momentarily blinded her, and every bird that had occupied the tree suddenly left in a rush, loud chirrups marking their way.
- The meadow was silent save for the chirrups of crickets.
Synonyms trill, trilling, song, birdsong, cry, warbling, chirp, chirping, chirrup, chirruping, chirr, chirring, cheep, cheeping, twitter, twittering, tweet, tweeting, whistle, whistling, chatter, chattering, squeak, squeaking, pipe, piping, peep, peeping, call, calling
OriginLate 16th century: alteration of chirp, by trilling the -r-. |