chirr

• churr

Imitative, ca. 1600. More at churr.

• (Received Pronunciation, General Australian) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃɜː/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃɝ/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃɪr/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃøː/
• (Liverpool, fair–fur merger) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃeː/
• (Humberside, Teesside, fair–fur merger) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃɛː/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
• Homophones: chur, churr (both fern–fir–fur merger); chair (fair–fur merger)

chirr (third-person singular simple present chirrs, present participle chirring, simple past and past participle chirred)

1. (intransitive) To make the prolonged trilling sound of an insect (e.g. a grasshopper, a cicada).

• chirp, stridulate

chirr (plural chirrs)

1. The trilled sound made by an insect.