chirruper
English
Etymology
chirrup + -er
Noun
chirruper (plural chirrupers)
- One who chirrups.
- 1866, Elizabeth Anne Finn, Home in the Holy Land
- As it [the sun] passed round to the south the first chirrupers would cease, and others on that side of the tree take up the chorus; and when the shades of evening fell upon the branches, one by one the grasshoppers became silent.
- 1866, Elizabeth Anne Finn, Home in the Holy Land