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Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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adj
lively; cheerful; in good spirits
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: New-England, US, colloquial
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name
A small town and community with a town council in Wrexham borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref SJ2937).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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verb
To become happier.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: especially, intransitive
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verb
To make happier.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: especially, transitive
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verb
To make the sound of a bird; to chirp.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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verb
make a shrill creaking, squeaking, or noise, as of a door, mouse, or bird
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: voice, sound, vocalize, vocalise
History
From Middle English chirken, cherken, charken, from Old English ċearcian (“to chatter, creak, crash”), from Proto-West Germanic *krakōn (“to make a sound, crack”). Doublet of chark. Related also to crake, crack.
