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chirk

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chirk  (chûrk)
tr. & intr.v. chirked, chirk·ing, chirks
To make or become cheerful.
[Middle English chirken, to chirp, chirrup, from Old English cearcian, to chatter, alteration of cracian, to resound; see crack.]
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Verb1.chirk - make a shrill creaking, squeaking, or noise, as of a door, mouse, or bird
vocalize, voice, vocalise, sound - utter with vibrating vocal chords


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It is accented by the little noises that, compounded, make up the so-called silence of the country: the chirk of a colony of katydids sliced by the more strident sawing of a distant cicada, the staccato scolding of a red squirrel infuriated by a gray cousin, and the wash of the wind through the roadside maples.
Plunderers in Paradise by MEYER, ERNEST L. / The Progressive
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