Hypertext Webster Gateway: "chirping"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Chirping \Chirp"ing\, a.
Cheering; enlivening.
He takes his chirping pint, he cracks his jokes.
--Pope.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Chirp \Chirp\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Chirped}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Chirping}.] [Of imitative orgin. Cf. {Chirk}, {Chipper},
{Cheep}, {Chirm}, {Chirrup}.]
To make a shop, sharp, cheerful, as of small birds or
crickets.
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