corky
English
Pronunciation
Audio (AU) (file) - Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)ki
Adjective
corky (comparative corkier, superlative corkiest)
- Of wine, contaminated by a faulty or tainted cork.
- This wine smells a bit corky; get me another bottle.
- Consisting of, or like, cork; dry; shrivelled.
- c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene vii]:
- Bind fast his corky arms.
See also
Noun
corky (plural corkies)
Alternative forms
Synonyms
- (bruise): ecchymosis, contusion
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