chirruping
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English
[edit]Verb
[edit]chirruping
- present participle and gerund of chirrup
Noun
[edit]chirruping (plural chirrupings)
- The act of producing a chirrup sound.
- the chirrupings of birds
- 1930, Aldous Huxley, Brief Candles:
- Time passed; Moira grew up, chronologically; but Sir Watney went on treating her as a spoilt child, went on being enchanted by her birdy chirrupings and ingenuousnesses and impertinent enfant-terrible-isms.