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chirr
[ chur ]
verb (used without object)
- to make a characteristic shrill, trilling sound, as a grasshopper.
noun
- the sound of chirring.
chirr
/ tʃɜː /
verb
- intr (esp of certain insects, such as crickets) to make a shrill trilled sound
noun
- the sound of chirring
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Origin of chirr1
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Example Sentences
Their call for food was a sibilant chirr, and they gave it much oftener than any of the grown-up woodpecker notes.
There were no bites immediately; but as they sat there they heard a red squirrel chirr!
"Not at all," replied the little man, in a voice as dry and crisp as the chirr of a grasshopper.
But on leading up his horse within ten or twelve feet of the pin, it gives a little "chirr" and dives down out of sight.
They have peculiar notes like a clear whistle, and a “chirr, chirr!”
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