chirl
English
editEtymology
editImitative; compare chirr.
Verb
editchirl (third-person singular simple present chirls, present participle chirling, simple past and past participle chirled)
- (Scotland, intransitive) To emit a low sound; to warble.
Noun
editchirl (plural chirls)
- (Scotland) A kind of musical warble.
References
edit- Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (1908).