chirruping

Verb

chirrup (third-person singular simple present chirrups, present participle chirruping, simple past and past participle chirruped)

1. (intransitive) To make a series of chirps, clicks, or clucks.
   • When other folks' squirrels are at home and asleep, yourn keep in motion among the trees and chirrup and sing, in a way that even a Delaware gal can understand their music!1841, James Fenimore Cooper, chapter 17, in The Deerslayer: Or, the First War-path
2. (transitive) To express by chirping.
   • The crickets chirruped their song.
3. (transitive) To quicken or animate by chirping.
   • to chirrup a horse

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