chirping
English
Verb
chirping
- present participle of chirp
Noun
chirping (plural chirpings)
- (gerund of chirp) An instance of chirping
- Francis Bacon
- Let the songs be loud and cheerful, and not chirpings or pulings.
- 2009, January 11, “Richard Lourie”, in Displaced Minds:
- Adler's prose seeks to catch the whispers and chirpings of insanity rather than the lamentations of suffering.
- Francis Bacon