Synonyms:
chirp
Meaning: a sharp sound made by small birds or insects
verb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
peep, cheep, chirp, chirrup
Meaning: make high-pitched sounds; "the birds were chirping in the bushes"
Usage examples
Hark! how the Cricket joins the music with its Chirp, Chirp, Chirp; and how the kettle hums!
There was no sound but that of the distant breakers, mounting from all round, and the chirp of countless insects in the brush.
Not only did the birds cease song or chirp, but the lowing of the cattle ceased in the fields and the varied sounds of life died away.
All the birds were cowed; their sounds stopped. Neither song nor chirp was heard--silence seemed to have taken the place of the normal voices of bird life.
When she lay awake at night thinking of home, a cricket would chirp outside the wigwam, and a hand slip in a leaf full of berries, or a bark-cup of fresh water for the feverish little mouth.
Every snip of the scissors, as rose and peony and bluebell fell, seemed to chirp, "Mrs. Morgan is coming today." Anne wondered how Mr. Harrison COULD go on placidly mowing hay in the field across the lane, just as if nothing were going to happen.
There good old Mr. and Mrs. Cricket, with sprightly Miss Keziah and her brothers and sisters, found a warm and welcome home; and when the storm howled without, and lashed the poor naked trees, the Crickets on the warm hearth would chirp out cheery welcome to papa as he came in from the snowy path, or mamma as she sat at her work-basket.