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# chirrup

«chirrup» in Mova's school dictionary: **to make a series of short, high sounds, like a bird or an…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (chirrup, chirrups, chirruped, chirruping); noun (a chirrup, chirrups)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To chirrup is to make a series of short, high sounds, like a bird or an insect; to chirp. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chirrup/#m1)

2) A person chirrups when they talk in a bright, cheerful, high voice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chirrup/#m2)

3) (noun) A chirrup is such a sound. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chirrup/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In nature, sparrows chirrup and crickets chirrup on summer nights. In stories, a cheerful character «chirruped happily». In The Wind in the Willows the birds and the field mice chirrup by the river.

### examples

- The sparrows chirruped in the hedge. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chirrup/#x1)
- We heard the chirrup of crickets. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chirrup/#x2)
- «Good morning!» she chirruped. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chirrup/#x3)
- The baby bird chirruped for food. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chirrup/#x4)
- The grasshoppers chirruped in the long grass. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chirrup/#x5)
- A robin chirruped on the fence. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chirrup/#x6)
- Then the twins crumbled their bread on the ground, and the wrens pecked it, and chirruped and chirped. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chirrup/#x7)

### note

Regular verb: chirruped, chirruping (one p is usual). Similar: chirp, cheep, twitter.

### In the corpora

- [The Rat chirrups, and up climbs the Otter, shaking himself and grumbling «Greedy beggars!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/27-willows-ch1-part3-otter-badger-and-toad/1/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «chirrup» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chirrup/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.