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Chirk   Listen
adjective
Chirk  adj.  Lively; cheerful; in good spirits. (Colloq. New Eng.)






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Chirk" Quotes from Famous Books



... a humly, skimpy, awk'ard thing I be! I ain't more 'n half made; there ain't no nice, pretty lining inside o' me, like them other posies; and on'y my wrong side shows, and that's jest plain and common. I can't chirk up folks like the goldenrod and daisies does. Nobody won't want to pick me and carry me home. I ain't no good to anybody, and ...
— Story-Tell Lib • Annie Trumbull Slosson

... eyes always helped me. I looked at her and felt better. She wasn't any better-lookin' than I; but she always was so chirk, and smart, and neat, and pretty-behaved, that folks thought she was ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, Issue 11, September, 1858 • Various



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