cheep

English

Etymology

Pronunciation

enPR: chēp, IPA^(key): /tʃiːp/
Audio (US) (file)
Homophone: cheap
Rhymes: -iːp

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 sounding like "cheep".
- 1945 August 17, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 1, in Animal Farm: A Fairy Story, 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 […]
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.

Translations

make high-pitched sounds

Catalan: piular (ca)
Finnish: sirkuttaa
French: piailler (fr), chanter (fr)
Greek: κελαηδώ (el) (kelaïdó)

Hungarian: csipog (hu)
Norman: piauler, tuiter
Russian: чири́кать (ru) impf (čiríkatʹ)
Walloon: tchîper (wa), tchîpter (wa), tchîpyî (wa)

Noun

cheep (plural cheeps)

A short, high-pitched sound made by a small bird.

Interjection

cheep

The short, high-pitched sound made by a small bird.

Translations

short, high-pitched sound made by a small bird

Vietnamese: chiếp chiếp

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