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Chitter vs Chirr - What's the difference?

chitter | chirr |

As verbs the difference between chitter and chirr

is that chitter is to make a series of high-pitched sounds; to twitter, chirp or chatter while chirr is to make a prolonged trilling sound of an insect (eg a grasshopper, a cicada).

As a noun chirr is

the trilled sound made by an insect.

chitter

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To make a series of high-pitched sounds; to twitter, chirp or chatter.
    • It was a beautifully sunny day and beetles could be heard chittering loudly in the rose garden by the side of the path made out of antique bricks.
  • (obsolete, Scotland) To shiver or chatter with cold.
    • (Burns)
    (Webster 1913)

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    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.