chirm
English
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editFrom Middle English chirmen (“to chirp, twitter”), from Old English ċirman (“to make a noise, cry out, shout”), from Proto-West Germanic *karmijan (“to make a sound”).
The noun is from Middle English chirm (“the call of various birds; chirping”), from Old English ċirm, ċyrm, ċierm (“noise, cry, alarm”), from Proto-West Germanic *karmi, *karm, from Proto-Germanic *karmaz, *karmiz. Doublet of charm (“sound, voices; group, flock”).
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editNoun
editchirm (plural chirms)
Verb
editchirm (third-person singular simple present chirms, present participle chirming, simple past and past participle chirmed)
- (obsolete) To chirp or to make a mournful cry, as a bird does.
- 1552, Richard Huloet, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
- Chyrme or chur, as byrdes do.
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “chirm”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Middle English
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editInherited from Old English ċierm, from Proto-West Germanic *karmi, from Proto-Germanic *karmiz.
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editNoun
editchirm
- (rare) A chirp or tweet; an avian vocalisation.
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edit- “chirm, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
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