See CHIRPER, senses 1 and 4, Fr., un intime.
1888. Pall Mall Gazette, 6 March, 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.’
1888. PAYN, in Illustrated London News, 17 March, p. 268. The … singers in music-halls cannot … do without him (the CHIRRUPER). [M.]
