chirm
English
Etymology
From Middle English chirmen (“to chirp, twitter”), from Old English ċirman (“to make a noise, cry out, shout”), from Proto-Germanic *karmijaną (“to make a sound”).
The noun is from Middle English chirm (“the call of various birds; chirping”), from Old English ċirm, ċyrm, ċierm (“noise, cry, alarm”), from Proto-Germanic *karmiz. Doublet of charm (“sound, voices; group, flock”).
Noun
chirm (plural chirms)
Verb
chirm (third-person singular simple present chirms, present participle chirming, simple past and past participle chirmed)
- (obsolete) To chirp or to make a mournful cry, as a bird does.
- 1552, Richard Huloet
- Chyrme or chur, as byrdes do.
- 1552, Richard Huloet
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “chirm”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
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