单词 | chirt |
释义 | chirtn.ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > speech sound by manner > [noun] > obstruent > spirant or continuant > affricate > specific chirtc1620 c1620 A. Hume Of Orthogr. Britan Tongue (1870) i. iv. §14 With c we spil the aspiration, turning it into an Italian chirt; as, charitie, cherrie. 2. A squeeze (which ejects liquid). ΚΠ 1834 M. Scott Cruise of Midge v, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. July 39/1 Giving his trowsers a hitch, and his quid a cruel chirt. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2021). chirtv. Obsolete or Scottish. I. Obsolete. Of sound. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > by noises > voice or sound made by animal > make sound [verb (intransitive)] > whistle or chirp whistlec1000 wlitec1200 pipec1275 chirkc1386 chirtc1386 pulea1398 whitter1513 cheepa1522 peep1534 churtle1570 chipper1593 crick1601 grill1688 crink1781 yeep1834 chip1868 the world > animals > birds > sound or bird defined by > [verb (intransitive)] > chirp or twitter chirmOE chattera1250 janglea1300 jargon?a1366 chirkc1386 chirtc1386 chitterc1386 twittera1387 chirpc1440 yipc1440 channerc1480 quitter1513 chirrup1579 chipper1593 pip1598 gingreate1623 chita1639 sweet1677 shatter17.. swee-swee1839 weet-weet1845 cheet1855 tweet1856 twiddle1863 weet1866 the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > [verb (intransitive)] > chirp chirtc1386 chirpc1440 chita1639 chirrup1766 c1386 G. Chaucer Summoner's Tale 96 [He] kiste hire sweete and chirteth [4 MSS. chirketh] as a sparwe With his lyppes. 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum ix. v. (Tollem. MS.) Exciteþ briddes and foulis to chirtynge [1495 chyrterynge, 1535 cherterynge] and to loue [L. ad garritum et amores]. II. Of an action. Scottish. 2. intransitive. To issue or spout out with a chirping sound, as liquid when squeezed; to spirt or squirt. ΚΠ a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1957) iii. ix. 72 The ȝoustir tharfra chirtand and blak blude. a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1959) viii. iv. 169 He hym in armys claspyt, And so strenȝeis hys throt, furth chirt hys eyn. 3. a. transitive. ‘To squeeze (liquid) through the teeth’ (Ruddiman); ‘to squeeze, to press out’ (Jamieson). ΚΠ 1805 G. M'Indoe Million of Potatoes 149 John chirted out his hairy purse. 1822 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 12 335 All meaning is chirted out of these words. 1826 J. Wilson Noctes Ambrosianae xxix, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Nov. 784 The love o' truth chirts it out o' me. ΚΠ 1596 H. Clapham Briefe of Bible i. 77 A brother..in a trance, who happilie once may bee recovered, by chyrting the cheeke and vse of strong waters. 4. intransitive. To press in. ΚΠ 1790 A. Wilson Poems 205 While lads an' laughin' lasses free Chirt in to hear thy sang. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.c1620v.c1386 |
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