Chirpy

Definition: Chirpy

Chirpy

Adjective

1. Characterized by liveliness and light-heartedness; "buoyant spirits"; "his quick wit and chirpy humor"; "looking bright and well and chirpy"; "a perky little widow in her 70s".

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Date "chirpy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1871. (references)

Synonyms: Chirpy

Crosswords: Chirpy

Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep (performing artist: Middle of the Road)

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Music

• Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep [IMPORT] (reference)

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Arabic 

‏مرح (airiness, airy, be merry, blithe, breezy, bright, buoyancy, buoyant, cheerful, cheerfulness, cheering, exult, facetious, festive, fresh, frisk, frisky, frolic, frolicsome, fun, gaiety, gay, glee, gleeful, have fun, hilarious, hilarity, jaunty, jocose, jocosity, jocund, jolly, jovial, joviality, joy, joyful, joyfulness, joyous, kittenish, lark, light, lightsome, lively, make merry, merriment, merry, merry making, mirth, mirthful, perkiness, perky, playful, playfulness, playing, rejoice, rollick, romp, sportive, sprightly, sunny, vivacious, vivacity, what fun, winsome). (various references)

Bulgarian 

весел (airy, blithe, blithesome, boisterous, bright, buoyant, canty, cheery, chirp, colorful, colourful, coltish, convivial, daft, debonair, exhilarated, festal, gamesome, gay, genial, gladsome, gleeful, gleesome, good humoured, good-humored, high, humorous, jaunty, jocular, jocund, joky, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, light, light hearted, lightsome, lively, mellow, merry, mirthful, peppy, perky, rackety, roistering, rollicking, rorty, rosy, saucy, slaphappy, sparkish, sportive, sporty, sprightly, swinging, upbeat, winsome). (various references)

Chinese 

活泼 (lively). (various references)

Czech

veselý (blithesome, bright, cheerful, convivial, exhilarated, gay, gleeful, happy, high-spirited, hilarious, humorous, jaunty, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyous, light hearted, lively, merry, mirthful, pleasant, rollicking, rorty, sportful, vivacious), dobré naladìný (breezy), živý (active, airy, alive, animated, bright, brisk, clear, exhilarating, gay, heated, high-spirited, lifelike, live, lively, living, mercurial, perky, pleasant, quick, racy, sprightly, vivacious, vivid). (various references)

French

vif, gai (cheerful, cheery). (various references)

German

lebhaft (agile, animated, bouncy, breezy, brisk, briskly, eager, feisty, fresh, frisky, gay, lively, mercurial, mobile, quick, quicksilver, spiritedly, sprightly, vivace, vivacious, vivid, vividly). (various references)

Greek 

εύθυμοσ (blithe, convivial, debonair, festive, frabjous, gay, happy go lucky, hilarious, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyous, light hearted, merry, mirthful, resilient, sprightly, zippy). (various references)

Hungarian

vidám (amused, blithe, blithe as a lark, bobbish, cheerful, comic, comical, daft, dashing, droll, exhilarated, felicitous, frisky, frolicsome, gay, glad, gladsome, gleeful, gleesome, hilarious, jaunty, jocose, jocular, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, light hearted, light-hearted, mellow, merry, mirthful, playful, rejoicing, rollicking, sprightly, sunny, to be in high spirits). (various references)

Italian

cinguettante, vivace (alive, animated, bright, brisk, buoyant, colorful, colourful, dashing, frisky, gay, jaunty, lively, perky, quick, racy, skittish, spirited, sprightly, spry, vibrant, vigorous, vivacious, vivid). (various references)

Manx

scoylgagh. (various references)

Pig Latin

irpychay.(various references)

Portuguese

vivo (above-ground, active, acute, adroit, agile, alert, alive, argute, bobbish, bouncing, brainy, breezy, bright, brisk, buoyant, clear-sighted, clinking, coltish, cork, corky, crisp, dapper, diagram, fervent, frisky, gaudy, gay, graphic, graphical, hasty, hurry, intense, juicy, keen, kittenish, knowing, light, lightsome, live, lively, living, luminous, lusty, mercurial, mettled, mettlesome, nimble, nippy, parky, perky, pert, picturesque, poignant, quick, racy, rattling, resilient, shrewd, smart, spanking, speaking, spirited, sprightly, spry, stirring, subtil, subtile, subtle, swift, swift-handed, vivacious, vivid, volatile, warm, watchful, zippy), alegre (alive, blithe, blithesome, bonny, boon, breezy, brisk, buoyant, buxom, canty, cheerful, cheery, coltish, convivial, corky, diverting, entertaining, exhilarated, festal, festive, frolicsome, gamesome, gay, glad, gladsome, gleeful, happy, hilarious, holiday, jaunty, jocular, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, jubilant, larksome, laughing, light, light-hearted, lightsome, lively, merry, mirthful, peart, resilient, slaphappy, sportful, sportive, sprightly, tipsy, vivid, volatile, winsome). (various references)

Romanian

vioi (active, alert, animated, breezy, bright, brisk, briskly, cheery, crisp, full of beans, gamy, hasty, hoity toity, lightsome, lithe, live, lively, living, mercurial, merry, mettlesome, nimble, nimbly, pleasant, quick-witted, racy, Randy, ready, smart, snappy, spirited, sportive, sprightly, spry, vigorous, volatile), vesel (blithe, blithesome, boon, breezy, bright, cheerful, cheerfully, cheery, convivial, crank, debonair, elastic, feastful, festal, frisky, frolic, frolicsome, full-blooded, gaily, gamesome, gay, genial, glad, gladsome, gleeful, happy, hilarious, in full feather, in high feather, jauntily, jaunty, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyfully, joyous, lively, mellow, merry, mirthful, playful, pleasant, riant, saucy, sprightly, tails up, wanton). (various references)

Russian 

чирикать (chirrup, pip), веселый (blithe, blithesome, breezy, canty, cheerful, cheery, convivial, corky, debonair, exhilarated, exhilarating, festive, frolic, gamesome, gay, gleeful, hilarious, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, light hearted, lightsome, lively, merry, mirthful, perky, playful, pleasant, set up, sportful, sportive, sprightly), живой (alive, animate, bouncy, boyish, breathing, breezy, brisk, cheery, chipper, chirp, crisp, dashing, hands-on, high-colored, high-coloured, jazzy, jocund, live, lively, living, lusty, nimble, oomph, peppy, poignant, quick, rip-roaring, roaring, scintillating, skittish, snappy, sparky, spirited, sprightly, spry, vital, vivacious, vivid, zippy). (various references)

Spanish

animado (alive, animate, animated, buoyed up, busy, cheerful, chipper, Chirk, ebullient, enlivens, freshens, jazzy, lively, pert, sprightly, upbeat, zippy), alegre (airy, blithe, blithesome, boon, breezy, bright, canty, cheerful, cheery, chipper, Chirk, chuffed, contentious, convivial, debonair, felicitous, gamesome, gay, glad, happy, high-spirited, holiday, jaunty, jocose, jolly, joyful, light, light hearted, lightsome, lively, merry, mirthful, perky, pert, playful, pleased, rollicking, sportful, sporty, swinging, upbeat, zappy). (various references)

Swedish

glad (bonny, bright, canty, cheerful, cheery, Chirk, debonair, delighted, gay, glad, gladsome, gleeful, gleesome, happy, high, hilarious, jocund, jolly, joyful, joyous, merry, pleased). (various references)

Turkish

cıvıl cıvıl (breezy, chirping, sonsy), neşeli (airy, animate, animated, blithe, boon, breezy, bright, bucked, buoyant, buoyed up, cheerful, cheerfully, cheery, cock-a-hoop, debonair, debonaire, easygoing, eupeptic, exhilarated, fit as a fiddle, full of beans, gamesome, gay, genial, gleeful, high, hilarious, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, lively, merry, merrymaking, mirthful, perky, rambunctious, rollicking, slaphappy, spirited, sportive, sprightly, sunny, upbeat, vivacious). (various references)

Ukrainian

веселий (airy, blithe, boon, breezy, bright, canty, cavalier, cheerful, cheery, chipper, convivial, debonair, exhilarated, gay, happy go lucky, jolly, jovial, merry, mirthful, perky, pleasant, rackety, sportful, sunny), жвавий (active, agile, airy, alert, alive, alive and kicking, animated, breezy, brisk, canty, crisp, dashing, exhilarated, gleg, jaunty, live, living, mobile, nimble, peppy, perky, slippy, sprightly, vivid, whisky, youthful, zippy), житт�"радісний (blithe, buoyant, canty, exuberant, jocund, resilient). (various references)

Vietnamese 

vui tính (good-humored, good-humoured, jovial, sonsie, sonsy, sportive), hoạt bát (alert, bright, chipper, dapper, mercurial, quick, spry, up-and-coming, vivacious, volatile). (various references)

Misspellings

"Chirpy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: chapy, cherepi, chimpy, chipy, chirrp, chirry, churpy. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: chirp, pricy, pyric.

-2 letters: chip, pyic, rich.

-3 letters: chi, cry, hic, hip, hyp, ich, icy, phi, pic, pry, rip, yip.

-4 letters: hi, pi.

+1 letter: pyrrhic.

+2 letters: chirpily, chirrupy, hydropic, pyrrhics, triptych.

+3 letters: chiropody, copyright, coryphaei, cyphering, dysphoric, hyperacid, hyperemic, hyperopic, hypocrisy, hypocrite, preachify, preachily, triptychs.

+4 letters: bryophytic, copyrights, cryophilic, dystrophic, hermatypic, hydroponic, hyperbaric, hyperbolic, hypergolic, hypermanic, hyperpneic, hypersonic, hypertonic, hypocorism, hypocrites, hypodermic, microphyll, orphically, patriarchy, periphytic, psychiatry, pyrophoric, rhinoscopy, sphericity, triglyphic, xerophytic.

+5 letters: calligraphy, cardiopathy, chirography, copyrighted, cryptarithm, cryptorchid, discography, granophyric, graphically, heterotypic, hydropathic, hydrophilic, hydrophobic, hydrophytic, hydroponics, hydrotropic, hygrophytic, hygroscopic, hyperactive, hyperacuity, hypercapnia, hypercapnic, hypercritic, hypermetric, hypermnesic, hyperphagic, hyperstatic, hypocorisms, hypocrisies, hypodermics, hypogastric, hypomorphic, hypothermic, hypsometric, iconography, kymographic, macrophytic, microphylls, parochially, perionychia, pictography, polygraphic, polymorphic, porphyritic, preachingly, psychiatric, pyrotechnic, saprophytic, spherically, sporophytic, symposiarch, thyrotropic, trophically, typographic, viceroyship, xylographic, zygomorphic.