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Chirk vs Chirm - What's the difference?

chirk | chirm |

As verbs the difference between chirk and chirm

is that chirk is to become happier while chirm is to chirp or to make a mournful cry, as a bird does.

As an adjective chirk

is lively; cheerful; in good spirits.

As a noun chirm is

collective noun for goldfinch.

chirk

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • (especially as chirk up) To become happier.
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  • *{{quote-book, year=1908, author=Grace Livingston Hill Lutz, title=Marcia Schuyler, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Now you jest wipe your eyes and chirk up. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1894, author=Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), title=Tom Sawyer Abroad, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage="Go ahead," he says, and I see Jim chirk up to listen. }}
  • (especially as chirk up) To make happier.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1912, author=Zona Gale, title=Christmas, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=But--" "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." }}
  • To make the sound of a bird; to chirp.

    • Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • (colloquial, US, chiefly, New England) lively; cheerful; in good spirits

    • Usage notes

    * The comparative and superlative forms of chirky'', chirkier''' and '''chirkiest , are sometimes used suppletively as comparative and superlative forms of ''chirk . ----

    chirm

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Collective noun for goldfinch

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To chirp or to make a mournful cry, as a bird does.
    • (Huloet)
    (Webster 1913)