CHIRRUP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does chirrup mean? 

• CHIRRUP (noun)
  The noun CHIRRUP has 1 sense:

1. a series of chirps

  Familiarity information: CHIRRUP used as a noun is very rare.

• CHIRRUP (verb)
  The verb CHIRRUP has 1 sense:

1. make high-pitched sounds

  Familiarity information: CHIRRUP used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHIRRUP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A series of chirps

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

chirrup; twitter

Hypernyms ("chirrup" is a kind of...):

sound (the sudden occurrence of an audible event)

Derivation:

chirrup (make high-pitched sounds)

• CHIRRUP (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they chirrup    ... he / she / it chirrups   
Past simple: chirruped   
Past participle: chirruped   
-ing form: chirruping   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make high-pitched sounds

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

cheep; chirp; chirrup; peep

Context example:

the birds were chirping in the bushes

Hypernyms (to "chirrup" is one way to...):

emit; let loose; let out; utter (express audibly; utter sounds (not necessarily words))

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "chirrup"):

chitter; twitter (make high-pitched sounds, as of birds)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

chirrup (a series of chirps)

 Context examples 

Waldron sat down, and, after a chirrup from the chairman, Professor Challenger rose and advanced to the edge of the platform.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

All this being nothing to me, my vacant attention soon found livelier attraction in the spectacle of a little hungry robin, which came and chirruped on the twigs of the leafless cherry-tree nailed against the wall near the casement.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

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.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)