chirk up

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chirk up

verb chirks up · chirking up · chirked up

idiomatic, transitive To make more cheerful; to cause to perk up. "Well, I think," said Mis' Jane Moran, "that we've hit on the only way we could have hit on to chirk each other up over a hard time."
idiomatic, intransitive To become more cheerful; to perk up or become animated or enthusiastic. "Go ahead," he says, and I see Jim chirk up to listen.

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@misc{chirk_up_2026,
  title = {chirk up},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/chirk%20up},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}