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Chirr vs Chirring - What's the difference?

chirr | chirring |

As verbs the difference between chirr and chirring

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

As nouns the difference between chirr and chirring

is that chirr is the trilled sound made by an insect while chirring is the sound of a chirr.

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.

    • chirring

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The sound of a chirr.
  • * 2008 , Cornelia F. Mutel, The Emerald Horizon: The History of Nature in Iowa (page 166)
    • American toads still fill spring nights with prolonged chirrings , while tree-frogs trill from perches in trees and shrubs.