chirm

/ tʃɜːm /

noun

1. the chirping of birds

verb

1. intr (esp of a bird) to chirp

Word History and Origins

Origin of chirm¹

Old English cierm noise; related to Old Saxon karm

Example Sentences

As the late Christopher Hassall makes clear in this massive, kindly biography, Rupert Brooke had everything: chirm, grace, Grecian good looks, precocious brilliance.

From Time Magazine Archive

For many days the cripple met, or rather sought, Maria in his solitary rambles; for she, too, loved the solitude of the mountains or the silence of the woods, which is broken only by the plaintive note of the wood-pigeon, the chirm of the linnet, the song of the thrush, the twitter of the chaffinch, or the distant stroke of the woodman, lending silence a charm.

From Project Gutenberg

No sound came to break the quiet of the evening hour save the monotonous plaint of a whippoorwill in a distant brake, and the ceaseless chirm of insects among the leafy boughs and down in the ferns that clustered on the knolls round about.

From Project Gutenberg