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cheeped

/t͡ʃiːpt/

cheeped is the simple past and past participle of cheep.

Meaning of cheep

Verb

cheep (third-person singular simple present cheeps, present participle cheeping, simple past and past participle cheeped)

  1. Of a small bird, to make short, high-pitched sounds.
    • […] a brood of ducklings, which had lost their mother, filed into the barn, cheeping feebly and wandering from side to side […]1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC
  2. To express in a chirping tone.
    • O Swallow, Swallow, if I could follow, and light / Upon her lattice, I would pipe and trill, / And cheep and twitter twenty million loves.1847, Tennyson, “O Swallow, Swallow, flying South”, in The Princess, lines 7–9

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Words that rhyme with cheeped

Questions about cheeped

What is cheeped the simple past and past participle of?
Cheeped is the simple past and past participle of cheep.
How do you pronounce cheeped?
Cheeped is pronounced /t͡ʃiːpt/.

Words near cheeped in the dictionary

  1. Cheena
  2. cheenar
  3. cheenars
  4. Cheenas
  5. cheep
  6. cheeped
  7. cheeper
  8. cheepers
  9. cheepier
  10. cheepiest
  11. cheeping

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