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5 letters · 14 points in Scrabble
Meaning
verb make a shrill creaking, squeaking, or noise, as of a door, mouse, or bird
originFrom 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.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0