chirpy adj.
happy, gay, cheerful.
![]() | in Martineau Society Amer. III 332: It makes me chirpy to think of Roseland [F&H]. | |
![]() | From Antietam to Fort Fisher (1985) 227: I am well and ‘chirp as a cricket’. | letter 1 Jan. in Longacre|
![]() | Donna Quixote Ch. xxxv n.p.: To Carlton this appeared gravely ominous... Paulina, on the other hand, was what she would herself have called chirpy [F&H]. | |
![]() | Childe Chappie’s Pilgrimage 55: Some other Johnnies – green ones – seem / Chirpy, and more than half awake. | |
![]() | Dead Bird (Sydney) 4 Jan. 5/1: ‘Wot’ll I write about?’ ‘Oh, any thing chirpy, something crisp and fresh and funny’. | |
![]() | Liza of Lambeth (1966) 50: I don’t feel too chirpy neither. | |
![]() | Confessions of a Detective 184: See how chirpy he is! I’m blessed if he won’t take to whistling in a minute. | |
![]() | Psmith in the City (1993) 108: Mr Waller, still chirpy, had nothing but good news of Edward. | |
![]() | ‘The Knight’s Return’ in Chisholm (1951) 84: ‘Too true,’ I sez, reel chirpy. ‘She’ll be proud.’. | |
![]() | (con. WW1) Patrol 22: ‘You sawn-off, chirpy, slab-sided dumble!’. | |
![]() | They Drive by Night 28: What the hell had he got to be so browned off about? He ought to be feeling proper chirpy. | |
![]() | Indiscreet Guide to Soho 42: The coster is as chirpy as ever. | |
![]() | Und. Nights 138: You’re looking very chirpy, Charlie. | |
![]() | Alfie I ii: You can’t be feeling all that chirpy on what I’m paying you. | |
![]() | Alfie Darling 167: ‘Look here, darling,’ I said, dead casual and chirpy. | |
![]() | Indep. Information 28 Aug.–3 Sept. 47: ‘How’s it going?’ his chirpy mate asks. | |
![]() | Turning (2005) 300: Then somehow, chirpy as you like, they’d con us into walking them back. | ‘Defender’ in|
![]() | Empty Wigs (t/s) 398: It wasn’t actually the chirpy lark Ruders made it out to be. It was deuced serious. |