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third-person singular simple present chirks, present participle chirking, simple past and past participle chirked
(intransitive, especially as "chirk up") To become happier. quotations examples
Now you jest wipe your eyes and chirk up.
1908, Grace Livingston Hill Lutz, Marcia Schuyler
"Go ahead," he says, and I see Jim chirk up to listen.
1894, Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), Tom Sawyer Abroad
(transitive, especially as "chirk up") To make happier. quotations examples
But--" "Well, I think," said Mis' Jane Moran, "that we've hit on the only way we could have hit on to chirk each other up over a hard time."
1912, Zona Gale, Christmas
To make the sound of a bird; to chirp. examples
comparative chirker or more chirk, superlative chirkest or most chirk
(colloquial, US, chiefly New England) lively; cheerful; in good spirits examples