chirk
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 14
- Words With Friends
- 14
- Letters
- 5
Definition of chirk
5 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included
verb
- (especially, intransitive)To become happier.
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verb
- (especially, intransitive)To become happier.
- (especially, transitive)To make happier.
- To make the sound of a bird; to chirp.
adj
- (New-England, US, colloquial)lively; cheerful; in good spirits
name
- A small town and community with a town council in Wrexham borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref SJ2937).
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Etymology
From Middle English chirken, cherken, charken, from Old English ċearcian (“to chatter, creak, crash”), from Proto-West Germanic *krakōn (“to make a sound, crack”). Doublet of chark. Related also to crake, crack.
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