Citations:chirk

in Southern US usage

 * 1865 April, Adventures of a Lone Woman, published in The Atlantic Monthly, volume 15, number 90, page 387:
 * She ha'n't never been away from her folks, nor he from hisn, till t'other day he got bit with the ile-fever, and nothing would do but to tote down here to the Crik and make his fortin. They was chirk enough when they started; but about a week ago he come home, and I tell you he sung a little smaller than when he was there last.