Crossword clues for cheep
cheep
- High-pitched sound
- Canary sound
- Coop call
- Baby bird sound
- Nestling's cry
- Hatchling's cry
- Coop cry
- Chick noise
- Bird's noise
- Pet store sound
- Hatchling's call
- Chick's call
- Bird's "word"
- Young cardinal's call
- Word heard from a bird
- Sound from a hen's brood
- Small tweet
- Relative of a tweet
- Nestling's noise, sometimes
- Little bird's call
- High-pitched call
- High cry from a nest
- Cry of a young bird
- Cardinal's cry
- Call from the coop
- Brood sound
- Aviary sound
- Word from a bird
- Canary's call
- [Give me the worm! Give me the worm!]
- Call from a tree
- Sound like a bird
- Fowl language?
- The short weak cry of a young bird
- Chick's cry
- Sound from a brooder
- Nest sound
- Chickadee sound
- Chick's comment to a frugal farmer
- Bird sound
- Sound in a nest
- Sing like a bird
- Young bird's cry
- Bird's sound
- Bird call
- Incubator sound
- Nest noise
- Chick sound
- Baby bird's sound
- Bird word
- Chick's pronouncement
- Nestling's noise
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cheep \Cheep\, n. A chirp, peep, or squeak, as of a young bird or mouse.
Cheep \Cheep\, v. t. To give expression to in a chirping tone.
Cheep and twitter twenty million loves.
--Tennyson.
Cheep \Cheep\ (ch[=e]p), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Cheeped (ch[=e]pt).] [Cf. Chirp]. To chirp, as a young bird.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1510s, of imitative origin, originally Scottish. Related: Cheeped; cheeping; cheeper. The noun is attested by 1774.
Wiktionary
interj. The short, high-pitched sound made by a small bird. n. A short, high-pitched sound made by a small bird. vb. 1 Of a small bird, to make short, high-pitched sounds sounding like "cheep". 2 To give expression to in a chirping tone.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Cheep may refer to:
- Bird vocalization
- Cheep, a 1917 musical revue at the Vaudeville Theatre
Usage examples of "cheep".
On the pad the handlers roughly set down their wire mesh cages containing thousands of cheeping chicks, not noticing that one door had not been fastened properly.
In the livestock section, Cialben went to a wire cage filled with hopping, cheeping chicks.
He pressed the On button of the rad counter and listened to the faint cheeping of the machine.
Accompanied by a high cheeping sound, teeth clacked together several times, denoting amusement.
And the little partridges, cheeping, gliding, whistling among the drooping stems, would raise their little bills for each shining dewdrop that attracted them, and drink it down and run with glad little pipings and gurglings to the next drop that flashed an invitation from its bending grass blade.
Anigel shrank back in loathing when Immu kicked aside the indignant displaced spinners, which cheeped and squeaked and tried to bite through the shoes and boots of the intruders.
Ryan climbed down from the wag on the leeward side, finding to his dismay that his rad counter began to cheep a warning, the needle sliding into the red.
The bird gave a sad little cheep, obviously no more convinced by her words than she was.
It cheeped and muttered quietly, but there was nothing of the fearful crackling that would indicate a hot spot.
He'd heard the cheeping from the other end of the garden and even from the bottom of the tree he'd been able to see three little yellow beaks in the nest.
Ryan's rad counter began to cheep softly, the needle creeping inexorably through the orange and holding not far from the red that showed a dangerous hot spot.
There were two swallows under the eaves shadowing Lucy's chamber-windows: two swallows, mates in one nest, blissful birds, who twittered and cheepcheeped to the sole-lying beauty in her bed.
As if the collapse of the coconuts had wakened sleeping creatures, he heard coming nearer, beyond the partition that separated the larder from the rest of the lower deck, not a squeaking but a cheeping, a chirping, and the scratching of paws.
And then he was gone and I swam down to Elizabeth and shooed away the butcherbirds and read the note written on the bottom of her foot: cheep.
Alarms cheeped and burbled as energetic particles sleeted into the exterior shielding fields.