| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| chirrup |
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| SYLLABICATION: | chir·rup |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  chûr  p, ch r- |
| VERB: | Inflected forms: chir·ruped, chir·rup·ing, chir·rups
| | INTRANSITIVE VERB: | 1. To utter a series of chirps. 2. To make clucking or clicking sounds with the lips, as in urging on a horse. | | TRANSITIVE VERB: | 1. To sound with chirps. 2. To make clucking sounds to. | | NOUN: | 1. A series of chirps. 2. A series of clucks or clicking sounds, such as those made to urge on a horse. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Variant of chirp.
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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