chirrup

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  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 […]
  2. A brief, high-pitched, insignificant statement. derogatory,figuratively
    — For an hour or more that evening I listened to his monotonous chirrup about bad money driving out good, the token value of silver, the depreciation of the rupee, and the true standards of exchange.
动词 v.
  1. To make a series of chirps, clicks, or clucks. intransitive
    — 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!
  2. To express by chirping. transitive
    — The crickets chirruped their song.
  3. To quicken or animate by chirping. transitive
    — to chirrup a horse

词形变化

chirrups present,singular,third-person chirruping participle,present chirruped participle,past chirruped past chirrups plural

词汇关系

衍生词
chirruper chirrupy

词源

词源 1
Variant of chirp.
词源 2
Variant of chirp.
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