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Chirping vs Chirr - What's the difference?

chirping | chirr |

As verbs the difference between chirping and chirr

is that chirping is while chirr is to make a prolonged trilling sound of an insect (eg a grasshopper, a cicada).

As nouns the difference between chirping and chirr

is that chirping is (gerund of chirp) an instance of chirping while chirr is the trilled sound made by an insect.

chirping

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (gerund of chirp) An instance of chirping
  • * Francis Bacon
    • Let the songs be loud and cheerful, and not chirpings or pulings.
  • * {{quote-news, 2009, January 11, Richard Lourie, Displaced Minds, New York Times citation
    • , passage=Adler's prose seeks to catch the whispers and chirpings of insanity rather than the lamentations of suffering. }}

    chirr

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make a prolonged trilling sound of an insect (e.g. a grasshopper, a cicada).

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The trilled sound made by an insect.