Definition of "chirk" []

• To make or become cheerful. (verb-transitive)

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• "Chirk, chirk, chirk, it went, the sound of a spoon being rapidly whisked round a basin."
• "Ayla lay awake under the starlit sky, staring up at the patterns of constellations and listening to the night sounds: the wind sifting through the trees, the soft liquid running of the river, the chirk of crickets, the harsh harumph of a bullfrog."
• "Mr. Haynes told me that if I would "chirk up" he would give me his elk teeth."