Definition of Chirring

1. Verb. (present participle of chirr) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Chirring

1. chirre [v] - See also: chirre

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chirring

chirping
chirping chips
chirpingly
chirpings
chirplet
chirplets
chirps
chirpt
chirpy
chirpy as a cricket
chirr
chirre
chirred
chirren
chirres
chirring (current term)
chirrs
chirrup
chirruped
chirruping
chirrups
chirrupy
chirt
chirted
chirting
chirts
chiru
chirugion
chirugions
chirurgeon

Literary usage of Chirring

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Festivals & Folklore of Gilgit by Ghulam Muhammad (1905)
"(6) Ash to sho dez ik alo aju kal chirring ga oota. Translation :— (1) May this year come again, oh Brethren, may such a year come again ! ..."

2. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1901)
"You do affect as timorously as swans, (Cold ¡is the brook they swim in) who do bill With tardy modesty, and chirring plead Their constant resolutions. ..."

3. Publications by Musical Antiquarian Society (1845)
"... But that there was in place to stir His spleen, the chirring grashopper, The merry cricket, puling flie, The piping gnat for ..."

4. Educational Psychology by Edward Lee Thorndike (1913)
"Thus the reactions of running, crouching and chirring by chicks when a large object is thrown at them are surely unlearned but develop gradually. ..."

5. Text-book of Histology by Philipp Stöhr (1913)
"but the branches were gay with screaming blue-jays and chirring, . jibing red-squirrels; and from time to time two or three nuts would come pattering down, ..."

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