Chirk

adj, name, verb, slang

adj, name, verb, slang ·Common ·High school level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To become happier. especially, intransitive
  2. 2
    make a shrill creaking, squeaking, or noise, as of a door, mouse, or bird wordnet
  3. 3
    To make happier. especially, transitive
  4. 4
    To make the sound of a bird; to chirp.
Adjective
  1. 1
    lively; cheerful; in good spirits New-England, US, colloquial
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A small town and community with a town council in Wrexham borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref SJ2937).

Synonyms

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Etymology

From Middle English chirken, cherken, charken, from Old English ċearcian (“to chatter, creak, crash”), from Proto-West Germanic *krakōn, from Proto-Germanic *krakċną (“to make a sound, crack”). Doublet of chark. Related also to crake, crack.

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