chirpy
/ˈtʃəːpi
/adjective (chirpier, chirpiest) informal
Cheerful and lively: she looked positively chirpy a chirpy face...
- I want you to think for a moment about the liveliest, most chirpy person you know.
- But Vera's chirpy cheerfulness cannot disguise the seriousness of her vocation.
- As soon as I saw the title of this film, I thought of the Everley Brothers' cheerful, chirpy number.
Derivatives
chirpily
/ adverb ...- With ‘5pm to 9pm’ being quite a broad time span, I told myself chirpily, the delivery would probably happen around 7pm and I would get home only half an hour or so later than usual.
- He was chirpily defiant, shouting his innocence through the corridors, before asking me: ‘All right, mate?’
- ‘Oh, and if ancient history was a shape,’ added a classicist chirpily, ‘what shape might that be?’
chirpiness
/ noun ...- But even her critics, infuriated by her indomitable chirpiness, admire her equally unquenchable energy.
- It is her chirpiness that makes her so popular.
- Well-known for his ready smile and chirpiness, Brian, from Lymington, said: ‘We are a very close-knit team and we try to make things fun for obvious reasons.’