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Chirped vs Chirruped - What's the difference?

chirped | chirruped |

As verbs the difference between chirped and chirruped

is that chirped is (chirp) while chirruped is (chirrup).

chirped

English

Verb

(head)
  • (chirp)

    • chirp

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A short, sharp or high note or noise, as of a bird or insect.
  • A pulse of signal whose frequency sweeps through a band of frequencies for the duration of the pulse.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • to make a short, sharp, cheerful note, as of small birds or crickets
  • to speak in a high-pitched staccato

    • chirruped

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (chirrup)

    • chirrup

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make a series of chirps, clicks or clucks
  • To express by chirping.
    • The crickets chirruped their song.
  • To quicken or animate by chirping.
    • to chirrup a horse

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A series of chirps, clicks or clucks
  • * 1841 James Fenimore Cooper - The deerslayer: Or, the First War-path
    • 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!
  • * 1859 Charled Dickens - The Cricket on the Hearth
    • And here, if you like, the Cricket DID chime in ! with a Chirrup , Chirrup, Chirrup of such magnitude, by way of chorus