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Postby Bailey » Fri Mar 09, 2007 9:37 pm

n. 1. Noise; din; esp.; confused noise, clamor, or hum of many voices, notes of birds, or the like.
v. i. 1. To chirp or to make a mournful cry, as a bird.
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Postby Slava » Wed Aug 18, 2010 1:01 pm

I was about to give up on this one. I couldn't find anything about it on the web, other than the site where MB must have found it.

Then I had a brilliant idea! Why not check a real dictionary? Aha!

Turns out this is not a typo of chirp, as I was starting to think. 'Tis a real word, with real history. It may be rare, but it's from Middle English chirmen and Anglo-Saxon cirman.
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