chirrとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Imitative, ca. 1600. More at churr.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation, Australian) IPA: /t͡ʃɜː/
• (General American) IPA: /t͡ʃɝ/
• (Scotland) IPA: /t͡ʃɪr/
• (New Zealand) IPA: /t͡ʃøː/
• (Liverpool, fair–fur merger) IPA: /t͡ʃeː/
• (Humberside, Teesside, fair–fur merger) IPA: /t͡ʃɛː/
• 韻: -ɜː(ɹ)
• 異形同音異義語: chur, churr (both fern–fir–fur merger); chair (fair–fur merger)

動詞

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).

同意語

• chirp, stridulate

名詞

chirr (plural chirrs)

1. The trilled sound made by an insect.