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Chirpy   /tʃˈərpi/   Listen
Chirpy

adjective
1.
(birds or insects) characterized by or tending to chirp.
2.
Characterized by liveliness and lightheartedness.  Synonyms: buoyant, perky.  "His quick wit and chirpy humor" , "Looking bright and well and chirpy" , "A perky little widow in her 70s"





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"Chirpy" Quotes from Famous Books



... the day there were no signs of it. The sky was blue and free from all suggestions of approaching thunderbolts. Mr Waller, still chirpy, had nothing but good news of Edward. Mike went for his morning stroll round the office feeling that things had settled down and had made up their ...
— Psmith in the City • P. G. Wodehouse
... night at the cabin, where a roaring fire warmed me and dried my clothes," David's friend continued. "My packet of letters was safe and dry, so I slept in peace, and we were both as chirpy as sparrows when we set out the next morning. It was a clear, still day, with the sun falling warmly ...
— Billy Topsail & Company - A Story for Boys • Norman Duncan
... went and called on FitzGerald's old housekeeper, Mrs Howe, and her husband. She the "Fairy Godmother," as FitzGerald delighted to call her, was blithe and chirpy as ever, with pleasant talk of "our gentleman": "So kind he was, not never one to make no obstacles. Such a joky gentleman he was, too. Why, once he says to me, 'Mrs Howe, I didn't know we had express trains here.' And I said, 'Whatever do ...
— Two Suffolk Friends • Francis Hindes Groome
... getting from Devonshire into Cornwall, so of course we just missed a boat and had to wait half an hour. I was dying to go to sleep, but the others were as chirpy as possible, gabbling Cornish legends. When I say the "others," I mean Sir Lionel and Ellaline Lethbridge. I didn't know any legends, but I made up several on the spur of the moment, much more exciting than theirs, ...
— Set in Silver • Charles Norris Williamson and Alice Muriel Williamson


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