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Definition of Chirpily
1. Adverb. In a cheerfully buoyant manner. "We accepted the opportunity buoyantly"
Definition of Chirpily
1. Adverb. In a chirpy way. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Chirpily
1. chirpy [adv] - See also: chirpy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chirpily
Literary usage of Chirpily
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1888)
"I often tell my wife I never knew her value till now. So far from Marriage being
a failure, it has turned Failure into a triumphant success ! Yours chirpily ..."
2. The Dial edited by Francis Fisher Browne (1908)
"... but deliberately removed a loose contact spring which had fallen between the
wheels and immediately the instruments worked as chirpily as before. ..."
3. Ohio in the War: Her Statesmen, Her Generals, and Soldiers by Whitelaw Reid (1868)
"assented, said goodbye to his chief—"as chirpily "•—a staff-officer J teilt»
us, "as if the elements were smiling," and hurried off orders to the cavalry to ..."
4. Varied Types by Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1908)
"... to this pulverising portent chirpily as " The Twopenny Tube," they would have
called down the fire of Heaven on us as a race of half-witted athiests. ..."
5. Twelve Types by Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1906)
"... and if they had' then been told that the people alluded to this pulverising
potent chirpily as ‘The Twopenny Tube,' they would have called down the fire ..."
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