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Chirk   Listen
verb
Chirk  v. i.  
1.
To shriek; to gnash; to utter harsh or shrill cries. (Obs.) "All full of chirkyng was that sorry place."
2.
To chirp like a bird. (Obs.)





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"Chirk" Quotes from Famous Books



... snapped and beefed and imposed on my hospitality, and it's got to stop. I don't need you; I don't care for you; I think you're a renegade four-flusher, bluffing on no pair, and if I had known what a nasty little old woman you are I'd never have opened negotiations with you. Now, you chirk up, Boston, and smile and try to be a good sport, or I'll work you over and make a man ...
— The Long Chance • Peter B. Kyne
... dinner time I donned a becoming gown to chirk up my courage, groped my way down the long, dim stairs, and telephoned to Von Gerhard. It seemed to me that just to hear his voice would instill in me new courage and hope. I ...
— Dawn O'Hara, The Girl Who Laughed • Edna Ferber
... force mounted, at daybreak. It consisted of two hundred horse, that the earl had brought with him; and which was to be joined, at Chirk, by a hundred and fifty of Lord Grey's men from Ruthyn, orders having been already sent on for them to hold themselves in readiness. This was to be done quietly, and without stir, as word would be sure to be sent to Glendower, were it to be known in the town that preparations ...
— Both Sides the Border - A Tale of Hotspur and Glendower • G. A. Henty


Words linked to "Chirk" :   sound, voice, vocalise, vocalize, chirk up


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