Cheeping vs Chirping - What's the difference?
cheeping | chirping |
The sound of a cheep.
* (Algernon Blackwood)
(gerund of chirp) An instance of chirping
* Francis Bacon
* {{quote-news, 2009, January 11, Richard Lourie, Displaced Minds, New York Times
, passage=Adler's prose seeks to catch the whispers and chirpings of insanity rather than the lamentations of suffering. }}
As verbs the difference between cheeping and chirping
is that cheeping is while chirping is .As nouns the difference between cheeping and chirping
is that cheeping is the sound of a cheep while chirping is (gerund of chirp) an instance of chirping.cheeping
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- Rustlings and cheepings came to him across that still, moonlit yard. A concourse of living beings sent the hum of their activity into the night.
chirping
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- Let the songs be loud and cheerful, and not chirpings or pulings.
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