chirrup

Etymology

Variant of chirp.

verb

1. (intransitive) To make a series of chirps, clicks, or clucks.
   When other folks' squirrels are at home and asleep, yourn keep in motion among the trees and chirrup and sing, in a way that even a Delaware gal can understand their music! 1841, James Fenimore Cooper, chapter 17, in The Deerslayer: Or, the First War-path
   Face Eater Cat is a very happy, healthy animal who's found her forever home, and she chirrups along when serenaded with eighties hits. It's a match made in heaven. 23 July 2022, “A She-Cat Tamed By The Purr Of Her Humans”, in Not Always Right, archived from the original on 2022-12-11
2. (transitive) To express by chirping.
   The crickets chirruped their song.
3. (transitive) To quicken or animate by chirping.
   to chirrup a horse

noun

1. A series of chirps, clicks or clucks.
   1845 Charles Dickens, The Cricket on the Hearth, Chirp the First, And here, if you like, the Cricket DID chime in! with a Chirrup, Chirrup, Chirrup of such magnitude, by way of chorus […]
2. (figurative, derogatory) A brief, high-pitched, insignificant statement.