Chirked vs Shirked - What's the difference?
chirked | shirked |
(chirk)
(especially as chirk up) To become happier.
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, passage=Now you jest wipe your eyes and chirk up. }}
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, passage="Go ahead," he says, and I see Jim chirk up to listen. }}
(especially as chirk up) To make happier.
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, 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
(shirk)
To avoid, especially a duty, responsibility, etc.; to stay away from.
* Hare
To evade an obligation; to avoid the performance of duty, as by running away.
* Byron
To procure by petty fraud and trickery; to obtain by mean solicitation.
* Bishop Rainbow
English heteronyms
As verbs the difference between chirked and shirked
is that chirked is (chirk) while shirked is (shirk).chirked
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Verb
(head)chirk
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Verb
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Adjective
(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 . ----shirked
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Verb
(head)shirk
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Etymology 1
First attested use in 1625 – 1635, apparently from association with shark (verb form), or from (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- the usual makeshift by which they try to shirk difficulties
- If you have a job, don't shirk from it by staying off work.
- One of the cities shirked from the league.
- You that never heard the call of any vocation, that shirk living from others, but time from yourselves.