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===Pronunciation=== |
===Pronunciation=== |
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{{listen|Black-winged stilt calls at Oued Martil of Tetouan, Morocco.wav|A bird '''cheeping'''}} |
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* {{enPR|chēp}}, {{IPA|en|/t͡ʃiːp/}} |
* {{enPR|chēp}}, {{IPA|en|/t͡ʃiːp/}} |
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* {{audio|en|en-us-cheep.ogg| |
* {{audio|en|en-us-cheep.ogg|a=US}} |
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* {{homophones|en|cheap}} |
* {{homophones|en|cheap}} |
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* {{rhymes|en|iːp|s=1}} |
* {{rhymes|en|iːp|s=1}} |
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{{rf-sound example}} |
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===Verb=== |
===Verb=== |
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* Greek: {{t+|el|κελαηδώ}} |
* Greek: {{t+|el|κελαηδώ}} |
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* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|csipog}} |
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|csipog}} |
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* Indonesian: {{t+|id|ciak}} |
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* Irish: {{t|ga|gíog}} |
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* Norman: {{t|nrf|piauler}}, {{t|nrf|tuiter}} |
* Norman: {{t|nrf|piauler}}, {{t|nrf|tuiter}} |
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* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|piar}} |
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|piar}} |
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# A short, high-pitched sound made by a small bird. |
# A short, high-pitched sound made by a small bird. |
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# A similar-sounding short high-pitched sound |
# A similar-sounding short high-pitched sound |
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#*{{quote-journal|en|year=December 15 2022|author=Samanth Subramanian|title=Dismantling Sellafield: the epic task of shutting down a nuclear site|journal=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/15/dismantling-sellafield-epic-task-shutting-down-decomissioned-nuclear-site|passage=The radiation trackers clipped to our protective overalls let off soft '''cheeps''', their frequency varying as radioactivity levels changed around us.}} |
#* {{quote-journal|en|year=December 15 2022|author=Samanth Subramanian|title=Dismantling Sellafield: the epic task of shutting down a nuclear site|journal=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/15/dismantling-sellafield-epic-task-shutting-down-decomissioned-nuclear-site|passage=The radiation trackers clipped to our protective overalls let off soft '''cheeps''', their frequency varying as radioactivity levels changed around us.}} |
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===Interjection=== |
===Interjection=== |
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* Czech: {{t+|cs|čiřikání}} |
* Czech: {{t+|cs|čiřikání}} |
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* French: {{t+|fr|cui-cui}} |
* French: {{t+|fr|cui-cui}} |
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* Irish: {{t|ga|gíog|f}} |
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* Russian: {{t+|ru|чири́к}}, {{t|ru|чик-чири́к}} |
* Russian: {{t+|ru|чири́к}}, {{t|ru|чик-чири́к}} |
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* Turkish: {{t+|tr|cıvıltı}} |
* Turkish: {{t+|tr|cıvıltı}} |
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* Vietnamese: {{t|vi|chiếp chiếp}} |
* Vietnamese: {{t|vi|chiếp chiếp}} |
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===Derived terms=== |
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{{col-auto|en|cheeper|cheepy}} |
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[[Category:English onomatopoeias]] |
[[Category:English onomatopoeias]] |
Latest revision as of 10:37, 24 June 2024
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit] A bird cheeping
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Verb
[edit]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.
- 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:
- […] a brood of ducklings, which had lost their mother, filed into the barn, cheeping feebly and wandering from side to side […]
- To express in a chirping tone.
- 1847, Tennyson, “O Swallow, Swallow, flying South”, in The Princess[1], 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.
Translations
[edit]make high-pitched sounds
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Noun
[edit]cheep (plural cheeps)
- A short, high-pitched sound made by a small bird.
- A similar-sounding short high-pitched sound
- December 15 2022, Samanth Subramanian, “Dismantling Sellafield: the epic task of shutting down a nuclear site”, in The Guardian[2]:
- The radiation trackers clipped to our protective overalls let off soft cheeps, their frequency varying as radioactivity levels changed around us.
Interjection
[edit]cheep
- The short, high-pitched sound made by a small bird.
Translations
[edit]short, high-pitched sound made by a small bird
Derived terms
[edit]Categories:
- English onomatopoeias
- Entries with audio examples
- English 1-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio links
- English terms with homophones
- Rhymes:English/iːp
- Rhymes:English/iːp/1 syllable
- English lemmas
- English verbs
- English terms with quotations
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English interjections
- en:Animal sounds