adj. (colloquial).—Cheerful; lively. [From CHIRP = babble of birds, + Y.]
1837. J. BATES, in H. Martineau, Society in America, III., 332. I have writ a much longer letter than I thought on, but somehow it makes me CHIRPY to think of Roseland, though the young folks were obstreperous.
1879. JUSTIN MCCARTHY, Donna Quixote, ch. xxxv. To Charlton this appeared gravely ominous … Paulina, on the other hand, was what she would herself have called ‘CHIRPY.’
1882. BESANT, All Sorts and Conditions of Men, ch. xx., p. 146. Her ladyship put quite a CHIRPY face upon it.
