chelp

词形变化

chelped chelping chelps 三单 chelps chelping 现在分词 chelped 过去式 chelped 过去分词

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To gossip, particularly in a forthright manner.

    不及物

    He's not here so we are chelping in the staffroom and ignoring the to-do list on the board.

    1820, John Clare, “My Mary” in Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery, London: Taylor and Hessey, p. 87, Who’s laugh’d at too by every whelp, For failings which she cannot help? But silly fools will laugh and chelp, My Mary.

  2. 2.

    To speak rudely or out of turn.

    不及物

    The teacher got angry at all her chelping.

词源

Probably of imitative origin; perhaps from ch(irp) + (y)elp.

来源：wiktionary