CHIRP
What does "CHIRP" mean?
To make a short, sharp, high-pitched sound, as a small bird or insect does.
Meanings
- To utter a short, sharp, repeated sound, like a bird or cricket. Sparrows chirped in the hedge at dawn.
- A short, sharp, high sound. The smoke alarm gave a single chirp.
- To speak in a lively, cheerful way. 'All ready!' she chirped from the doorway. informal
Did you know?
- Crickets chirp faster as it warms; by Dolbear's law (1897), you can estimate the temperature in Fahrenheit by counting a cricket's chirps in 14 seconds and adding 40.
Word origin
An imitative (onomatopoeic) word formed in Middle English to echo the sound itself, a variant of earlier 'chirpen' or 'chirken'; the word is the noise it names.
Remember it
CHIRP starts like 'cheep' and snaps shut on a sharp 'P' - the word ends as abruptly as the sound.
A little poem
Count the cricket's count-
fourteen seconds, add forty:
the night tells the heat.
haiku
Wordplay
- I asked the cricket the temperature. It told me, but I had to count on it.
What it teaches
A chirp is too small to mean much alone; meaning lives in how fast and how often it repeats.
Quick facts
What does CHIRP mean?
To make a short, sharp, high-pitched sound, as a small bird or insect does.
Is CHIRP a valid word?
Yes — CHIRP is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is CHIRP?
CHIRP has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does CHIRP come from?
An imitative (onomatopoeic) word formed in Middle English to echo the sound itself, a variant of earlier 'chirpen' or 'chirken'; the word is the noise it names.
What can CHIRP teach us?
A chirp is too small to mean much alone; meaning lives in how fast and how often it repeats.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.