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▪ I. chirt, v. Obs. or Sc. (tʃɜːt) [In branch I, a parallel form to chirk, chirp: see chirr. In branch II, used to express an action accompanied by such a sound, and then transferred.] I. Obs. Of sound. † 1. intr. To chirp. Obs.c 1386 Chaucer Sompn. T. 96 [He] kiste hire sweete and chirteth [4 MSS. ...
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chyrt
chyrne, chyrt obs. ff. of churn, chirt v.1596 H. Clapham Briefe Bible i. 77 A brother..in a trance, who happilie once may bee recovered, by chyrting the cheeke and vse of strong waters.
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chirr
▪ I. chirr, v. (tʃɜː(r), tʃərr, dial. and Sc. tʃɪrr) [A modern formation naturally expressing a prolonged and somewhat sharply trilled sound: cf. whirr, birr, burr, purr; with chirring cf. the more ponderous jarring. As a recent onomatopœia, chirr was evidently largely suggested by the already exist...
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chert
chert (tʃɜːt) Also 7–8 chirt. [App. a local term, which has been taken into geological use. Origin not ascertained. Prof. Skeat compares Kentish place-names like Brasted Chart; but this chart is explained by Parish and Shaw as ‘a rough common overrun with gorse, broom, bracken, etc.’, whence charty ...
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chirp
▪ I. chirp, v. (tʃɜːp) Also 5 chyrpe, 6 churpe, shirp, 6–7 chirpe, 7 cherp. [A late word, evidently owing its origin to the working of mimetic modification upon the earlier synonyms chirk and chirt. The labial p with which chirp ends, being more suggestive of the movements of a bird's bill (cf. chee...
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chirk
▪ I. chirk, v. (tʃɜːk) Forms: (1 cearcian), 4–6 chirke, 5–6 chyrke, 5–7 cherk(e, 6 churke, 6– chirk. [In its origin, a variant of chark:—OE. cearcian, stridēre, with which sense 1 coincides. The change to chirk was not phonetic, but evidently a modification adapted to express a thinner sound: anothe...
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seep
▪ I. seep, n. (siːp) Also seip. [Related to seep v. (Perh. repr. OE. sipe: see sipe, sip ns.)] 1. Moisture that drips or oozes out. dial.1825 Jamieson Suppl., Sipage,..Seip, leakage. 1834 Brit. Husb. I. 414 In Ireland..every peasant..bottoms his dung⁓stead with stuff drawn from the bogs, that he may...
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