chirk up | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic,transitive)To make morecheerful; to cause toperk up.1912, Zona Gale,Christmas‎[1]:"Well, I think," said Mis' Jane Moran, "that we've hit on the only way we could have hit on tochirkeach otherupover a hard time."1917, Sewell Ford,Wilt Thou Torchy:My idea was tochirkhimupat the start.; (idiomatic,intransitive)To become morecheerful; toperk upor becomeanimatedorenthusiastic.1894, Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens),Tom Sawyer Abroad‎[2]:"Go ahead," he says, and I see Jimchirk upto listen.1908, Grace Livingston Hill Lutz,Marcia Schuyler‎[3]:Now you jest wipe your eyes andchirk up.2006, Anna Cypra Oliver,Assembling My Father: A Daughter's Detective Story, page10: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.

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