Word.ws English Dictionary

chirre

chirre is the obsolete spelling of chirr.

Meaning of chirr

Verb

chirr (third-person singular simple present chirrs, present participle chirring, simple past and past participle chirred)

  1. (intransitive) To make the prolonged trilling sound of an insect (e.g. a grasshopper, a cicada).
    Synonyms:
    chirp, stridulate

See all 2 meanings of chirr

Forms of chirre

third-person singular presentchirres
present participlechirring
past participlechirred
pastchirred

Origin of chirre

Compare German girren (“to coo”) and Spanish chirriar (“to chirp”).

Questions about chirre

What is chirre the obsolete spelling of?
Chirre is the obsolete spelling of chirr.

Words near chirre in the dictionary

  1. chirpt
  2. chirpy
  3. chirpy as a cricket
  4. Chirpăr
  5. chirr
  6. chirre
  7. chirred
  8. chirren
  9. chirres
  10. chirrines
  11. chirring

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: chirre (page history and authors); chirr (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “chirre.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/chirre. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.