chirk

American  

[churk] / tʃɜrk /

verb (used without object)

1. to make a shrill, chirping noise.

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verb (used with object)

1. Informal. to cheer (usually followed byup ).

Etymology

Origin of chirk

before 1000; Middle English chirken to creak, chirrup, Old English circian to roar

Example Sentences

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

If a comment on frail appearance would thus depress our friend, surely the contrary assurance ought to chirk him up in proportion.

From Life's Minor Collisions by Warner, Frances Lester

You see, he hadn’t got anything in his mind to chirk him up, for he didn’t believe anything good was comin’, as Jack did; he ’most knowed it wasn’t, but Jack ’most knowed it was.

From Story-Tell Lib by Slosson, Annie Trumbull

"Mother and me'll have to stay by the fire to-day, but I've no doubt it'll chirk you up a bit to get outdoors a spell."

From Big Brother by Johnston, Annie F. (Annie Fellows)