chirping
English edit
Verb edit
chirping
- present participle and gerund of chirp
Noun edit
chirping (plural chirpings)
- (gerund of chirp) The act, or an instance of, chirping.
- 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Masques and Triumphs”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:
- Let the songs be loud and cheerful, and not chirpings or pulings.
- 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 85:
- 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[.]
- 2009 January 11, Richard Lourie, “Displaced Minds”, in New York Times[1]:
- Adler's prose seeks to catch the whispers and chirpings of insanity rather than the lamentations of suffering.