cheep
English
Etymology
Onomatopoeic.
Pronunciation
- enPR: chēp, IPA(key): /t͡ʃiːp/
Audio (US) (file) - Homophone: cheap
- Rhymes: -iːp
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Verb
cheep (third-person singular simple present cheeps, present participle cheeping, simple past and past participle cheeped)
- Of a small bird, to make short, high-pitched sounds.
- 1945 August 17, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 1, in Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, OCLC 3655473:
- […] a brood of ducklings, which had lost their mother, filed into the barn, cheeping feebly and wandering from side to side […]
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- To express in a chirping tone.
- 1847, Tennyson, "O Swallow, Swallow, flying South" in The Princess, lines 7-9:
- O Swallow, Swallow, if I could follow, and light / Upon her lattice, I would pipe and trill, / And cheep and twitter twenty million loves.
- 1847, Tennyson, "O Swallow, Swallow, flying South" in The Princess, lines 7-9:
Translations
make high-pitched sounds
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Noun
cheep (plural cheeps)
- A short, high-pitched sound made by a small bird.
- A similar-sounding short high-pitched sound
- December 15 2022, Samanth Subramanian, “Dismantling Sellafield: the epic task of shutting down a nuclear site”, in The Guardian:
- The radiation trackers clipped to our protective overalls let off soft cheeps, their frequency varying as radioactivity levels changed around us.
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Interjection
cheep
- The short, high-pitched sound made by a small bird.
Translations
short, high-pitched sound made by a small bird
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