chirk
chirk · chirker · chirkest
Lively; cheerful; in good spiritsLively; cheerful; in good spirits
Meaning
1 senses(New England, US, colloquial)Lively; cheerful; in good spirits
Origin
From Middle English chirken, cherken, charken, from Old English ċearcian (“to chatter, creFrom 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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Forms
chirker/more chirk, chirkest/most chirk| Comparative | chirker / more chirk Lesson |
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| Superlative | chirkest / most chirk Lesson |
regular
Lessons for this word
2 lessons- A2Comparatives — Because it has a comparative form
- A2Superlatives — Because it has a superlative form
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.