It is a short for chirringo, a familiar and colloquial way of calling a friend low stature or who is the youngest of a family. Several criminals and Colombian guerrilla nickname. It is one of the common names of a bird's scientific name blue-black grassquit, which belongs to the family Thraupidae. Also said you Whitehorn, owl, bird, creaking. Surname of an Italian journalist, Giovanna Chirri, who was it that gave the scoop to the world of the resignation of Pope Bebedicto XVI.