Chirked vs Chirmed - What's the difference?
chirked | chirmed |
(chirk)
(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=
, 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=
, 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=
, 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.
(colloquial, US, chiefly, New England) lively; cheerful; in good spirits
(chirm)
(obsolete) To chirp or to make a mournful cry, as a bird does.
As verbs the difference between chirked and chirmed
is that chirked is (chirk) while chirmed is (chirm).chirked
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(head)chirk
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(en-adj)Usage notes
* The comparative and superlative forms of chirky'', chirkier''' and '''chirkiest , are sometimes used suppletively as comparative and superlative forms of ''chirk . ----chirmed
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(head)chirm
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