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- verb Present participle of
chirk .
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Examples
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Your staring looks, your blood, your "chirking," are accidentals.
Earthwork out of Tuscany Being Impressions and Translations of Maurice Hewlett Maurice Hewlett 1892
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Almost Kenny could see him chirking up into insolence and the pertness of a bird.
Kenny Leona Dalrymple
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We were in the very centre of a prairie-dog town, but before I could formulate in my mind the probabilities of holes and broken legs, the chirk, chirk, chirking had fallen astern.
Arizona Nights Stewart Edward White 1909
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And you know what I told you about mourners chirking up, after the first blow!
When Egypt Went Broke Holman Day 1900
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There were plenty on the lawn around the Sagamore Club that dewy June morning, chirping, chirking, trilling, repeating their endless arias from tree and gate-post.
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"'Perhaps under the tables,' says young Angus, chirking up still more at this geniality.
Somewhere in Red Gap Harry Leon Wilson 1903
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