English edit

Etymology edit

Compare German girren (to coo).

Verb edit

chirre (third-person singular simple present chirres, present participle chirring, simple past and past participle chirred)

  1. (obsolete) To coo like a pigeon.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for chirre”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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