| birken | (adjective) consisting of or made of wood of the birch tree | Synonyms: birch, birchen |
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| chirk | (verb) make a shrill creaking, squeaking, or noise, as of a door, mouse, or bird | - |
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| dirk | (noun) a relatively long dagger with a straight blade | - |
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| firkin | (noun) a small wooden keg | - |
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| (noun) a British unit of capacity equal to 9 imperial gallons | - |
| irk | (verb) irritate or vex | Synonyms: gall |
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| irksome | (adjective) so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness | Synonyms: boring, deadening, dull, ho-hum, slow, tedious, tiresome, wearisome |
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| kirk | (noun) a Scottish church | - |
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| mirky | (adjective) (of liquids) clouded as with sediment | Synonyms: cloudy, muddy, murky, turbid |
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| (adjective) dark or gloomy | Synonyms: murky |
| quirk | (noun) a narrow groove beside a beading | - |
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| (noun) a strange attitude or habit | Synonyms: crotchet, oddity, queerness, quirkiness |
| (verb) twist or curve abruptly | - |
| quirkiness | (noun) a strange attitude or habit | Synonyms: crotchet, oddity, queerness, quirk |
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| quirky | (adjective) (informal) strikingly unconventional | Synonyms: far-out, kinky, offbeat, way-out |
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| shirk | (verb) avoid dealing with | - |
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| (verb) avoid (one's assigned duties) | Synonyms: fiddle, goldbrick, shrink from |
| shirker | (noun) a person who shirks his work or duty (especially one who tries to evade military service in wartime) | Synonyms: slacker |
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| shirking | (noun) the evasion of work or duty | Synonyms: goldbricking, goofing off, slacking, soldiering |
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| smirk | (noun) a smile expressing smugness or scorn instead of pleasure | - |
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| (verb) smile affectedly or derisively | Synonyms: simper |
| smirker | (noun) a smiler whose smile is offensively self-satisfied | - |
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| stirk | (noun) yearling heifer or bullock | - |
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