Crossword clues for chirrup
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chirrup \Chir"rup\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Chirruped; p. pr. & vb. n. Chirruping.] [See Chirp.] To quicken or animate by chirping; to cherup.
Chirrup \Chir"rup\, v. i.
To chirp.
--Tennyson.
The criket chirrups on the hearth.
--Goldsmith.
Chirrup \Chir"rup\, n. The act of chirping; a chirp.
The sparrows' chirrup on the roof.
--Tennyson.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1570s, alternative form chirp (v.).
Wiktionary
n. A series of chirps, clicks or clucks vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To make a series of chirps, clicks or clucks 2 (context transitive English) To express by chirping. 3 (context transitive English) To quicken or animate by chirping.
WordNet
Usage examples of "chirrup".
The horizon scanner chirruped, and Alae aimed the display projector at her retina.
Through the ugly rumble now came the chirrup, the fruity birdcall of the sirens, and already two hunched cops were running low across the street.
The cicadas and bullfrogs were stilled, birdlife was no longer chirruping.
And quiet: Canis IV had no birds, but it did have a large population of noisy insects and a chattering psuedo-squirrel-they were silent, not a chirrup or chatter.
The air was fragrant with honeysuckle and frangipani, and the little coqui chirruped in time with accordion music wafting from a gypsy band playing outside the theater.
A large musical box on the chimney-piece often trilled away at the Overture to Fra Diavolo, or a Selection from William Tell, with a chirruping liveliness that had to be stopped by force on the entrance of a client, and irrepressibly broke out again the moment his back was turned.
She drank it in, her senses coming alive to savor the sensation of coolness on her skin and the chirrups of crickets in the weeds by the house.
The bees chose their flowers, the snub kids Upon hindlegs went sportive, or plied, Nosing, hard at the dugs to be filled: There was milk, honey, music to make: Up their branches the little birds billed: Chirrup, drone, bleat and buzz ringed the lake.
Chase knew what he was hearing: the ghostly hoots and avian chirrups, the whistles and tweets, the lovely, lilting conversation between leviathans.
The windows were open to the late-August night, to the chirrup of the crickets and the slurp of the pond.
Before his eyes passed an array of physiognomies that would have made Cesare Lombroso chirrup ecstatically and reach for his tape-measure.
Macau and listened to the chirrup of insects and the beat of her heart.
No insects chirruped in the underbrush, nor was there the rustling of any tiny herbivore.
The insects about them chirruped softly, to the accompanying crackle of the flames.
And he chirruped to the team, which sprang forward with the rumbling, clattering wagon.