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单词 chippering
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chipperingn.1

Forms: Middle English chipperynge, Middle English chypperynge, 1500s chippering.
Origin: Probably formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: chip v.1, -er suffix5, -ing suffix1.
Etymology: Probably < chip v.1 + -er suffix5 + -ing suffix1. Compare slightly later chipping n.
Obsolete. rare.
(The occurrence of) a crack or fissure. Only in plural. Cf. chipping n. 3.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > [noun] > chap or crack > action or fact
chipperinga1398
chipping1526
chapping1703
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvii. cxxxviii. 1036 Of þe roote and of þe stalkes þerof [sc. cambmok] is ymade a medicyne þat phisicians clepeth licium..for it..heliþ whelkes and pymples of þe lippes and..chipperynges [1495 de Worde chypperynges, 1582 chipperings; L. scissuras] of þe tonge.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2021).

chipperingadj.n.2

Brit. /ˈtʃɪp(ə)rɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈtʃɪp(ə)rɪŋ/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: chipper v.1, -ing suffix2.
Etymology: < chipper v.1 + -ing suffix2.
A. adj.
Of a bird: that gives a call consisting of repeated light tremulous sounds; chirruping, twittering. Also: of the nature of, or characterized by, such sounds. rare before 19th cent.
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the world > animals > birds > sound or bird defined by > [adjective] > singing or chirping
chatteringa1250
chantinga1529
chippering1593
pipient1607
chirping1611
twittering1628
chittering1821
weeting1852
chirming1854
garrulous1854
1593 J. Eliot Ortho-epia Gallica ii. 147 O how this little pretie chippering Larke quauereth hir voice.
1805 Lancaster Gaz. 10 Aug. The chippering sparrow's am'rous call.
1921 F. S. Mathews Field Bk. Wild Birds & their Music (rev. ed.) 65 Both birds at a certain age keep up an incessant chippering clamor for food.
2014 G. J. Rachael Patterson Homeland Lost 270 Another brown-black maze—a tiny flock of chippering sparrows—skittered—weaving in and out of the wooden fences along the edge of the field.
B. n.2
The light, tremulous chirruping or twittering of a bird or birds; an instance of this.
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the world > animals > birds > sound or bird defined by > [noun] > twitter or chirp > action of
chatteringa1250
writelingc1275
jargoning?a1366
chitteringc1374
jargonc1386
chirpingc1440
chirming1481
garrulingc1550
chirruping1579
twittering1773
twitteration1805
chippering1879
1879 Youth's Compan. 17 Apr. 134/1 On my pine-tree bough The chipperings are hushed to rest.
1943 Auk 60 203 The food call of the young longspurs changed from the continuous chippering of the nestling to the shriller, intermittent call of the fledgling.
2013 Chicago Daily Herald (Nexis) 17 Apr. 1 Swifts spend most of their daylight hours in the air, feeding on flying insects. You can hear their loud ‘chippering’ as they dart about the sky on long sweptback wings.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2021).
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