chirping
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English[edit]
Verb[edit]
chirping
Noun[edit]
chirping (plural chirpings)
- (gerund of chirp) The act, or an instance of, chirping.
- 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Masques and Triumphs
- Let the songs be loud and cheerful, and not chirpings or pulings.
- 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, H.L. Brækstad, transl., Folk and Fairy Tales, page 85:
- We heard the peculiar note of the woodcock, which resembles the repeated croaking of the frog, followed by a sharp hissing sound, somewhat like the noisy chirping of the wagtail[.]
- 2009, January 11, “Richard Lourie”, in Displaced Minds[1]:
- Adler's prose seeks to catch the whispers and chirpings of insanity rather than the lamentations of suffering.
- 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Masques and Triumphs