cheeping
/ˈt͡ʃiːpɪŋ/
cheeping is the present participle and gerund of cheep.
Meaning of cheep
Verb
cheep (third-person singular simple present cheeps, present participle cheeping, simple past and past participle cheeped)
- 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
- 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
Noun
cheeping (plural cheepings)
- The sound of a cheep.
- Rustlings and cheepings came to him across that still, moonlit yard. A concourse of living beings sent the hum of their activity into the night.1908, Algernon Blackwood, Ancient Sorceries
Forms of cheeping
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Words that rhyme with cheeping
Questions about cheeping
- What does cheeping mean?
- Cheeping means the sound of a cheep.
- What is cheeping the present participle and gerund of?
- Cheeping is the present participle and gerund of cheep.
- What part of speech is cheeping?
- Cheeping is a noun.
- How do you pronounce cheeping?
- Cheeping is pronounced /ˈt͡ʃiːpɪŋ/.
- What is the plural of cheeping?
- The plural of cheeping is cheepings.
Words near cheeping in the dictionary
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