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a sound so small it sneaks past your ears straight into your nervous system
means To make a short, high, sharp sound, like a bird or an insect — or, of a person, to speak in a bright and cheery way.
from An imitative word, born from the sound itself — English has long had a little family of these chirpy noises (chirp, chirrup, chirm, chirk), all trying to spell the unspellable. It surfaces in Middle English, possibly a variant of the older 'chirk,' meaning to creak or twitter. The word doesn't describe the sound so much as attempt the sound, which is why it works.
- hidden engineering
- crickets chirp faster in heat, predicting temperature accurately
- radar trick
- chirped signals let radar see both distance and speed
- bird dialects
- city birds chirp higher to beat traffic noise
- deadly cute
- some frog chirps lure mates and bat predators alike
for instance
twitter — social media platform founded 2006, users post short messages called 'tweets'
bird vocalization — short high-pitched sound made by sparrows, finches, and other small birds