10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CHIRRUPER»
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The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century ...
1. chirruper (chir'up-er), n. [chirrup*, v. t, 2, + -erK] One who chirrups or applauds ;
a professional applauder. Did poet or painter . . . ever have a chirruper in their
employment? The players and singers in music-halls cannot, it seems, do without
...
2
Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: C to Fizzle
[The term appears to have come into vogue in the early part of 1 888. — See
quots. under Chirruper ; also Cf., Chirper, sense 4, and Chirruping.] Chirruper.—
See Chirper, senses 1 and 4, Fr., un intime. 1888. Pall Mall Gazette, 6 Mar., p. 4,
col.
John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley, 1891
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The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang
chirrup . To cheer or hiss at a music-hall according as a singer has paid or not:
coll: from ca 1888; ob. cf. CHIRPER, 4, and CHIRRUPER. 2. vbl n., chirruping (
Pall Mall Gazette, 9 March 1888) suggests Fr. chantage.
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Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary ... ...
CHIRRUPER.— See CHIRPER, senses I and 4, Fr. , un in Him. 1888. Pall Mall
Gazette, 6 Mar., p. 4, col. 2. A CHIRRUPER . . . excused himself at the Lambeth
Police Court yesterday by alleging that ' he thought there was no harm in it.' 1898.
John Stephen Farmer, Henley, 1891
5
Australian Bird Names: A Complete Guide
Lalage sueurii (Vieillot, 1818) [LA-la-ge soo-ER-ri-ee]: 'Lesueur's chirruper', see
genus name, and for Charles Alexandre Lesueur (1778*1846), French naturalist
and artist. He travelled for four years with Baudin in the Geographe in 1800*04, ...
Jeannie Gray, Ian Fraser, 2013
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Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary ...
Chirrup. 96 Chiselling. Chirrup, verb (musichall).—To cheer or applaud under a
system of blackmail. [The term appears to have come into vogue in the early part
of 1888.—See quots. under Chirruper ; also Cf.,Chirper, sense 4, ond Chirruping.
] ...
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The Birds of Aristophanes, Acted at Athens at the Great ...
'A^e'rar is the Doric form of riX*Trls "lc Chirruper, a name applied to the large
male tc'tti£ or Cicala (Eustathius on II. iii. 150), whose loud and shrill notes
pervade the meadows of South-Eastern Europe in the heat of a midsummer noon
.
Aristophanes, Benjamin Bickley Rogers, 1906
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Aristophanous Ornithes: The Birds of Aristophanes
'AxeVar is the Doric form of foenp Me Chirruper, a name applied to the large male
rcrnf or Cicala (Eustathius on II. iii. 150), whose loud and shrill notes pervade the
meadows of South-Eastern Europe in the heat of a midsummer noon. The form ...
Aristophanes, Benjamin Bickley Rogers, 1906
9
Freedom to Believe: Philosophical and Cultural Essays
Snowy dust shines silvery—a quote from Pushkin's poem “A white-sided
chirruper . . .” (Strekotun'ya beloboka . . .) (1829). Georgy Sviridov—Georgy
Sviridov (1915—98) was a Russian and Soviet neo-romantic composer. He had
several ...
10
Notes from the "News".
There is something cheerful and natural, ' the true bird note,' in the very name of
the chirruper. Is it impossible to introduce him to literature ? He would be a great
improvement on the clumsy device of log-rolling; which is also (as I am informed )
...
