Not for years have Britain's leading dairy firms been so chirpy.

Songbird not so chirpy This bid is inadequate but you should accept it anyway.

Eyes narrowing, his brother asked pointedly, "Why are you so chirpy this morning?"

The recorded voice sounded so chirpy it could have been advertising washing-up liquid rather than warning about nuclear meltdown.

Cousin Joseph, 'whom I found no difficulty in recognising by reason of his watery eyes, appeared not so chirpy as of yore.

So Chirpy Cricket pranced away across the meadow, wearing a broad smile.

So Chirpy ordered Kiddie Katydid and Moses and Mehitable to produce their banners, which they had left leaning against the wall.

"Stop there," one of them demanded, so Chirpy Bird stopped.