chirk
Americanverb (used without object)
verb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of chirk
before 1000; Middle English chirken to creak, chirrup, Old English circian to roar
Example Sentences
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Edith's potty papa, for instance, tried to chirk up the landscape of his 5,000-acre estate in Derbyshire by painting blue Chinese ideographs on a herd of white cows.
From Time Magazine Archive
When the dazzling sun disappears for the night, the gnomes chirk up.
From Time Magazine Archive
“We rode up on the stage day before yesterday, and he seemed so kind o’ blue and lonesome I couldn’t help trying to chirk him up.”
From The Forester's Daughter A Romance of the Bear-Tooth Range by Garland, Hamlin
But somehow that didn’t chirk up Reuben much.
From Story-Tell Lib by Slosson, Annie Trumbull
Do go, Mr. Crane: it'll chirk you up and dew you good to go out into society ag'in.
From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IX (of X) by Wilder, Marshall Pinckney
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