单词 | chippering |
释义 | † chipperingn.1 Obsolete. rare. (The occurrence of) a crack or fissure. Only in plural. Cf. chipping n. 3. ΘΚΠ 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 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1a1398adj.n.21593 |
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