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cherup

cherup is the archaic form of chirrup.

Meaning of chirrup

Noun

chirrup (plural chirrups)

  1. A series of chirps, clicks or clucks.
    • And here, if you like, the Cricket DID chime in! with a Chirrup, Chirrup, Chirrup of such magnitude, by way of chorus […]1845 Charles Dickens, The Cricket on the Hearth, Chirp the First
  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.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC

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Forms of cherup

Noun
pluralcherups
Verb
third-person singular presentcherups
present participlecheruping
present participlecherupping
past participlecheruped
pastcheruped
past participlecherupped
pastcherupped

Questions about cherup

What is cherup the archaic form of?
Cherup is the archaic form of chirrup.

Words near cherup in the dictionary

  1. cherublike
  2. cherubs
  3. Cherufe
  4. Cherukuri
  5. Cherukuris
  6. cherup
  7. cheruped
  8. cheruping
  9. cherupped
  10. cherupping
  11. cherups

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