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Chirped vs Chirked - What's the difference?

chirped | chirked |

As verbs the difference between chirped and chirked

is that chirped is (chirp) while chirked is (chirk).

chirped

English

Verb

(head)
  • (chirp)

    • chirp

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A short, sharp or high note or noise, as of a bird or insect.
  • A pulse of signal whose frequency sweeps through a band of frequencies for the duration of the pulse.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • to make a short, sharp, cheerful note, as of small birds or crickets
  • to speak in a high-pitched staccato

    • chirked

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (chirk)

    • chirk

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (especially as chirk up) To become happier.
  • *'>citation
  • *{{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 . ----