chirrup

«chirrup» in Mova's school dictionary: to make a series of short, high sounds, like a bird or an… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (chirrup, chirrups, chirruped, chirruping); noun (a chirrup, chirrups)

meaning for a pupil

1) To chirrup is to make a series of short, high sounds, like a bird or an insect; to chirp. tree →

2) A person chirrups when they talk in a bright, cheerful, high voice. tree →

3) (noun) A chirrup is such a sound. tree →

sense in the lessons

In nature, sparrows chirrup and crickets chirrup on summer nights. In stories, a cheerful character «chirruped happily». In The Wind in the Willows the birds and the field mice chirrup by the river.

examples

• The sparrows chirruped in the hedge. tree →
• We heard the chirrup of crickets. tree →
• «Good morning!» she chirruped. tree →
• The baby bird chirruped for food. tree →
• The grasshoppers chirruped in the long grass. tree →
• A robin chirruped on the fence. tree →
• Then the twins crumbled their bread on the ground, and the wrens pecked it, and chirruped and chirped. tree →

note

Regular verb: chirruped, chirruping (one p is usual). Similar: chirp, cheep, twitter.

In the corpora

• The Rat chirrups, and up climbs the Otter, shaking himself and grumbling «Greedy beggars!

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «chirrup» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.