cheep
Etymology
Onomatopoeic.
verb
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Of a small bird, to make short, high-pitched sounds. -
To express in a chirping tone. 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
noun
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A short, high-pitched sound made by a small bird. -
A similar-sounding short high-pitched sound The radiation trackers clipped to our protective overalls let off soft cheeps, their frequency varying as radioactivity levels changed around us. December 15 2022, Samanth Subramanian, “Dismantling Sellafield: the epic task of shutting down a nuclear site”, in The Guardian
intj
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The short, high-pitched sound made by a small bird.
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