ru чик-чири́к (short, high-pitched sound made by a small bird) · bg писукане (short, high-pitched sound made by a small bird) · vi chiếp chiếp (short, high-pitched sound made by a small bird) · ru чири́к (short, high-pitched sound made by a small bird) · cs čiřikání (short, high-pitched sound made by a small bird) · fr cui-cui (short, high-pitched sound made by a small bird) · ga gíog (short, high-pitched sound made by a small bird) · tr cıvıltı (short, high-pitched sound made by a small bird)
The radiation trackers clipped to our protective overalls let off soft cheeps, their frequency varying as radioactivity levels changed around us. December 15 2022, Samanth Subramanian, “Dismantling Sellafield: the epic task of shutting down a nuclear site”, in The Guardian:
Of a small bird, to make short, high-pitched sounds.
[…] a brood of ducklings, which had lost their mother, filed into the barn, cheeping feebly and wandering from side to side […] 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:
To express in a chirping tone.
O Swallow, Swallow, if I could follow, and light / Upon her lattice, I would pipe and trill, / And cheep and twitter twenty million loves. 1847, Tennyson, “O Swallow, Swallow, flying South”, in The Princess, lines 7–9: