chirrup

verb

1. (intransitive)To make a series of chirps, clicks, or clucks.

   “When other folks' squirrels are at home and asleep, yourn keep in motion among the trees and chirrup and sing, in a way that even a Delaware gal can understand their music!”

   “Face Eater Cat is a very happy, healthy animal who's found her forever home, and she chirrups along when serenaded with eighties hits. It's a match made in heaven.”

2. (transitive)To express by chirping.

   “The crickets chirruped their song.”

   “'Busy, Max?' chirruped the familiar voice of his friend the inquiry agent—incurably brisk and debonair even after its ten miles' journey along the wire.”

3. (transitive)To quicken or animate by chirping.

   “to chirrup a horse”

noun

1. A series of chirps, clicks or clucks.

   “1845 Charles Dickens, The Cricket on the Hearth, Chirp the First, And here, if you like, the Cricket DID chime in! with a Chirrup, Chirrup, Chirrup of such magnitude, by way of chorus […]”

   “[…] the music flashed by in delirious chirrups and stampings.”

   “the slight chirrup of a stoppered phial being opened”

2. (derogatory, figuratively)A brief, high-pitched, insignificant statement.

   “For an hour or more that evening I listened to his monotonous chirrup about bad money driving out good, the token value of silver, the depreciation of the rupee, and the true standards of exchange.”

   ““[…]Children, say ‘thank you’ to Mrs. Samuel Josephs.” Two subdued chirrups: “Thank you, Mrs. Samuel Josephs.””