Dictionary

chirping en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (gerund, of chirp) The act, or an instance of, chirping.
   • Adler's prose seeks to catch the whispers and chirpings of insanity rather than the lamentations of suffering. 2009 January 11, Richard Lourie, “Displaced Minds”, in New York Times:
   • Let the songs be loud and cheerful, and not chirpings or pulings. 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Masques and Triumphs”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:
   • We heard the peculiar note of the woodcock, which resembles the repeated croaking of the frog, followed by a sharp hissing sound, somewhat like the noisy chirping of the wagtail[.] 1886, Peter Christen Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 85:

Forms

chirping en · VERB

Meanings

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of chirp
   form of chirp