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Definition of Chirruping
1. chirrup [v] - See also: chirrup
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chirruping
Literary usage of Chirruping
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1901)
"For chirruping, on the supposition, apparently, that the word is derived from
cheer up. .... chirruping ..."
2. The Garter Mission to Japan (1906)
"I always thought that the Eton boys could cheer, but their cheers are as the
chirruping of grasshoppers beside the " Banzai " of a Japanese crowd when its ..."
3. The Legend of the Glorious Adventures of Tyl Ulenspiegel in the Land of by Charles de Coster (1918)
"Soet- kin and Claes soon discovered the cause of this mad behaviour, for there
was a tiny little bird, chirruping with fear, and cowering against a beam in ..."
4. Autobiography and Diary of Elizabeth Parsons Channing by Elizabeth Parsons Channing (1907)
"Now it is beset with noises. What a noisy world it is! Delightful wind on our
piazza, impaired by cow lowing, hens cackling, a boy's chirruping to a ..."
5. The Green Horse in Ladysmith by St. John Gore (1901)
"Whistling and chirruping, away goes the good shell through the air. See ! there it
is ! a great cloud of dust just beside the hated gun ..."
6. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1891)
"1888. Pall Mall Gazette, a March, p. 14. chirruping. Mr. Rimou] Mitchell writing
from the Savage Club [asks) to add a hint as to the ..."
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