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churtling

churtling is the present participle of churtle.

Meaning of churtle

Verb

churtle (third-person singular simple present churtles, present participle churtling, simple past and past participle churtled)

  1. To chirp.
    • The staff of the Law Notes is amused; even the office cat was observed to wink and his purr sounded suspiciously like a “feline churtle”.1894, Albert Gibson, Robert McLean, editors, Law Notes, volume 13, Reeves & Turner, page 132

Questions about churtling

What is churtling the present participle of?
Churtling is the present participle of churtle.

Words near churtling in the dictionary

  1. Churston Ferrers
  2. Churt
  3. churtle
  4. churtled
  5. churtles
  6. churtling
  7. Churu
  8. churuata
  9. Churubusco
  10. churus
  11. Churwell

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Adapted from Wiktionary: churtling (page history and authors); churtle (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.

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