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Webster 1913 Edition
Cheep
Cheep
,Verb.
T.
To give expression to in a chirping tone.
Cheep
and twitter twenty million loves. Tennyson.
Cheep
,Noun.
A chirp, peep, or squeak, as of a young bird or mouse.
Webster 1828 Edition
Cheep
CHEEP
,Verb.
I.
Definition 2024
cheep
cheep
English
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 May, George Orwell, 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 […]
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- To give expression to 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.
- 1847, Tennyson, "O Swallow, Swallow, flying South" in The Princess, lines 7-9,
Translations
make high-pitched sounds
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.