intransitive. To utter a clear, more or less shrill sound or note by forcing the breath through the narrow opening formed by contracting the lips…

intransitive. To pipe, chirp, warble.

intransitive. To utter a shrill, weak sound; to talk or sing weakly or shrilly; to cheep, squeak, chirp or croak. Cf. peep, v.2 1a, pip, v.2

To chirp, chirrup (as a bird); to make a noise with the lips like a bird's chirp; to squeak (as a mouse). archaic and dialect. (Not in Scottish.)

intransitive. To chirp. Obsolete.

intransitive. To pipe plaintively, as a chicken, or the young of any animal; also applied to the mewing cry of a kite. Now rare.

intransitive. To warble, twitter. Scottish.

Originally Scottish. intransitive. Of a small animal, esp. a young bird or a mouse: to make a thin, high-pitched cry. In extended use: to make a…

intransitive. To utter the faint, high-pitched sound of a young bird or mouse; to cheep, chirp, squeak.

To chirp.

intransitive. Chiefly U.S. Of a bird: to give a call consisting of repeated light tremulous sounds; to twitter, to chirrup. Also in extended use. Now…

intransitive. To make a thin, sharp sound, esp. (of a cricket or other insect) to make a sharp chirping sound.

intransitive. To chirp.

intransitive. To emit a sharp, thin sound. Cf. crick, v.1

intransitive. To cheep.

intransitive. Esp. of a bird or other small animal or insect: to make a sharp high-pitched cry.