cheep

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/t͡ʃiːp/

verb

Of a small bird, to make short, high-pitched sounds.

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peepchirpchirrup
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Meanings

verbcheep (third-person singular simple present cheeps, present participle cheeping, simple past and past participle cheeped)

present singular third person cheeps · participle present cheeping · participle past cheeped · past cheeped

  1. Of a small bird, to make short, high-pitched sounds.

    […] a brood of ducklings, which had lost their mother, filed into the barn, cheeping feebly and wandering from side to side […]

    1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC
  2. To express in a chirping tone.

    O Swallow, Swallow, if I could follow, and light / Upon her lattice, I would pipe and trill, / And cheep and twitter twenty million loves.

    1847, Tennyson, “O Swallow, Swallow, flying South”, in The Princess, lines 7–9
nouncheep (plural cheeps)

plural cheeps

  1. A short, high-pitched sound made by a small bird.
  2. A similar-sounding short high-pitched sound

    The radiation trackers clipped to our protective overalls let off soft cheeps, their frequency varying as radioactivity levels changed around us.

    December 15 2022, Samanth Subramanian, “Dismantling Sellafield: the epic task of shutting down a nuclear site”, in The Guardian
interjection
  1. The short, high-pitched sound made by a small bird.

Synonyms & antonyms

nounthe short weak cry of a young bird

Similar
peep
Broader
cry

verbmake high-pitched sounds

Similar
peepchirpchirrup
Broader
utteremitlet out
Also see
chirpchirruppeep

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

Onomatopoeic.

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Translations

Bulgarian писукам, писукане
  • писукам (pisukam)make high-pitched sounds
  • писукане (pisukane)short, high-pitched sound made by a small bird
Catalan piular, xerrotejar
  • piularmake high-pitched sounds
  • xerrotejarmake high-pitched sounds
Czech čiřikat, čiřikání
  • čiřikatmake high-pitched sounds
  • čiřikáníshort, high-pitched sound made by a small bird
Finnish sirkuttaa
  • sirkuttaamake high-pitched sounds
French piailler, chanter
  • piaillermake high-pitched sounds
  • chantermake high-pitched sounds
  • cui-cuishort, high-pitched sound made by a small bird
Greek κελαηδώ
  • κελαηδώ (kelaïdó)make high-pitched sounds
Hungarian csipog
  • csipogmake high-pitched sounds
Indonesian ciak
  • ciakmake high-pitched sounds
Irish gíog, gíog
  • gíogmake high-pitched sounds
  • gíogshort, high-pitched sound made by a small bird
Portuguese piar
  • piarmake high-pitched sounds
Russian чири́кать, чири́к
  • чири́кать (čiríkatʹ)make high-pitched sounds
  • чири́к (čirík)short, high-pitched sound made by a small bird
  • чик-чири́к (čik-čirík)short, high-pitched sound made by a small bird
Turkish cıvıldamak, cıvıltı
  • cıvıldamakmake high-pitched sounds
  • cıvıltıshort, high-pitched sound made by a small bird
Vietnamese chiếp chiếp
  • chiếp chiếpshort, high-pitched sound made by a small bird

Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with cheep

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Sounds the same

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Cite this entry
APA

cheep. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cheep

MLA

“cheep.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cheep. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “cheep,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cheep.

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