chirk up

1. 1.

   become cheerful

   Synonymscheercheer up

   Broaderrejoice

   Narrowerexuberatelighten

Questions about chirk up

What does chirk up mean?

chirk up means "become cheerful".

What is another word for chirk up?

Close synonyms include cheer, cheer up. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is chirk up a common word?

chirk up is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.