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chirping

verbnouncommon in dialogue

The act, or an instance of, chirping.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of chirppresent participle and gerund of chirp

noun

  1. 1

    The act, or an instance of, chirping.

    Let the songs be loud and cheerful, and not chirpings or pulings.

    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[.]

    Adler's prose seeks to catch the whispers and chirpings of insanity rather than the lamentations of suffering.

Forms

plural
chirpings
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).