shirking

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There were plenty on the lawn around the Sagamore Club that dewy June morning, chirping, chirking, trilling, repeating their endless arias from tree and gate-post.

From A Young Man in a Hurry and Other Short Stories by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)

“How will Cliff take all this chirking business?”

From The Forester's Daughter A Romance of the Bear-Tooth Range by Garland, Hamlin

Some said that his chaming and chirking of the paper was very ill-done of him, that he was over malapert and took too much upon him.

From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

Almost Kenny could see him chirking up into insolence and the pertness of a bird.

From Kenny by Nuyttens, Joseph Pierre

And then the screeching bird of night   Would mope upon the crumbling walls, And chirking whutthroats claim the right   To gambol in the ancient halls.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIV. by Leighton, Alexander