Definition of Chirking

1. chirk [v] - See also: chirk

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chirking

chiralised
chiralities
chirality
chiralized
chirally
chiralon
chiralons
chirarthritis
chirimoya
chirimoyas
chirk
chirk up
chirked
chirker
chirkest
chirking (current term)
chirks
chirl
chirled
chirling
chirls
chirm
chirmed
chirming
chirms
chiro
chiro-
chirobrachialgia
chirognomy
chirognostic

Literary usage of Chirking

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1901)
"Tyrwhitt defines chirking as chirping. Here he is certainly wrong. ... used by Herrick, bnt chirking, Anglo-Saxon (vide Halliwell), is the mixed sounds of ..."

2. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: To which is Prefixed, a by John Jamieson (1879)
"The term is used by Chaucer in a general sense for "a disagreeable sound." All full of chirking was that sory place. ..."

3. The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle, Robert Williams (1869)
"He who thinks himself worthy of great things, being in reality unworthy of them, shows what is commonly called " chirking vanity," or conceit,—although to ..."

4. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"... and sharp manace: All f'jll of chirking was that sory place. The sleer of himself yet saw I there. ..."

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