"chirk up" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "chirks up",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chirking up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chirked up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chirked up",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "chirk up (third-person singular simple present chirks up, present participle chirking up, simple past and past participle chirked up)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1912, Zona Gale, Christmas:",
          "text": "\"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.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1917, Sewell Ford, Wilt Thou Torchy:",
          "text": "My idea was to chirk him up at the start.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To make more cheerful; to cause to perk up."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "cheerful",
          "cheerful"
        ],
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          "perk up",
          "perk up"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, transitive) To make more cheerful; to cause to perk up."
      ],
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        "idiomatic",
        "transitive"
      ]
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1894, Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), Tom Sawyer Abroad:",
          "text": "\"Go ahead,\" he says, and I see Jim chirk up to listen.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1908, Grace Livingston Hill Lutz, Marcia Schuyler:",
          "text": "Now you jest wipe your eyes and chirk up.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Anna Cypra Oliver, Assembling My Father: A Daughter's Detective Story, page 10:",
          "text": "She was terrified but in control. n. How, on the trip around the country my parents took the year after my birth, their mood sank so low that even my brother sensed it. \"Chirk up, guys,\" he said. \"Chirk up.\" They laughed at that.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To become more cheerful; to perk up or become animated or enthusiastic."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "cheerful",
          "cheerful"
        ],
        [
          "perk up",
          "perk up"
        ],
        [
          "animated",
          "animated"
        ],
        [
          "enthusiastic",
          "enthusiastic"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, intransitive) To become more cheerful; to perk up or become animated or enthusiastic."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "chirk up"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "chirks up",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chirking up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chirked up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chirked up",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      },
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1912, Zona Gale, Christmas:",
          "text": "\"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.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1917, Sewell Ford, Wilt Thou Torchy:",
          "text": "My idea was to chirk him up at the start.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To make more cheerful; to cause to perk up."
      ],
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        [
          "cheerful",
          "cheerful"
        ],
        [
          "perk up",
          "perk up"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, transitive) To make more cheerful; to cause to perk up."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
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      "categories": [
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        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1894, Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), Tom Sawyer Abroad:",
          "text": "\"Go ahead,\" he says, and I see Jim chirk up to listen.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1908, Grace Livingston Hill Lutz, Marcia Schuyler:",
          "text": "Now you jest wipe your eyes and chirk up.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Anna Cypra Oliver, Assembling My Father: A Daughter's Detective Story, page 10:",
          "text": "She was terrified but in control. n. How, on the trip around the country my parents took the year after my birth, their mood sank so low that even my brother sensed it. \"Chirk up, guys,\" he said. \"Chirk up.\" They laughed at that.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To become more cheerful; to perk up or become animated or enthusiastic."
      ],
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        [
          "cheerful",
          "cheerful"
        ],
        [
          "perk up",
          "perk up"
        ],
        [
          "animated",
          "animated"
        ],
        [
          "enthusiastic",
          "enthusiastic"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, intransitive) To become more cheerful; to perk up or become animated or enthusiastic."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "chirk up"
}