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Definition: Chirpy |
ChirpyAdjective1. 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". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "chirpy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1871. (references) |
Synonyms: ChirpySynonyms: buoyant (adj), perky (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Chirpy |
| English words defined with "chirpy": buoyant ♦ perky. (references) |
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Song Titles | Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep (performing artist: Middle of the Road) | |
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| "Chirpy" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 80.43% of the time. "Chirpy" is used about 46 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 80.43% | 37 | 56,631 |
| Noun (proper) | 15.22% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (singular) | 4.35% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 46 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
cheap cheap chirpy chirpy | 8 |
chirpy | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "chirpy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
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) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Chirpy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: chapy, cherepi, chimpy, chipy, chirrp, chirry, churpy. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-h-i-p-r-y" | |
-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. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-h-i-p-r-y" | |
+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. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Anagrams 11. Bibliography |
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