corky
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English
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[edit]Audio (General Australian): (file) - Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)ki
Etymology 1
[edit]Adjective
[edit]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.
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[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]From cork (“injure by a blow”) + -y.
Noun
[edit]corky (plural corkies)
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[edit]- (bruise): ecchymosis, contusion