churtle

present singular third person churtles · participle present churtling · participle past churtled · past churtled

1. To chirp.

   When we went there in the morning, there was, all through the mosque, a sound of chanting like doves churtling.

   1992, Turkish Reflections: A Biography of a Place, page 104

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   Songs involve repetition of one note: churtle-churtle-churtle-churtle or wurtilee-wurtilee-wurtilee given separately or intermingled.

   2020 February 20, Dale A. Zimmerman, David J. Pearson, Donald A. Turner, “BULBULS”, in Birds of Kenya and Northern Tanzania, Bloomsbury Publishing, COMMON or DARK-CAPPED BULBUL, page 434

plural churtles

1. .

   The staff of the "Law Notes" is amused; even the office cat was observed to wink and his purr sounded suspiciously like a “feline churtle”.

   1894, Albert Gibson, Robert McLean, editors, Law Notes, volume 13, Reeves & Turner, page 132