corking
Meaning of corking
- very good; excellent.
cars in corking condition
- close or seal (a bottle) with a cork.
the bottles were tightly corked and wired
- draw with burnt cork.
he had corked a moustache on his upper lip
- illicitly hollow out (a baseball bat) and fill it with cork to make it lighter.
the balls are doctored and the bats are corked
- suffer a painful bruising injury to (a limb) as a result of a heavy blow, especially while participating in a contact sport.
he corked his thigh and limped off
she was subbed off in the first half because of a corked hip
Middle English: from Dutch and Low German kork, from Spanish alcorque ‘cork-soled sandal’, from Arabic al- ‘the’ and (probably) Spanish Arabic qurq, qorq, based on Latin quercus ‘oak, cork oak’.
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Hyphenation of corking
cork-ing
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- corking is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
corking synonyms
Meaning bang-up:
bully, cracking, dandy, great, groovy, keen, neat, nifty, peachy, swell, smashing
Anagrams of corking
Words that rhyme with corking
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