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CORKY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does corky mean?
• CORKY (adjective)
The adjective CORKY has 1 sense:
1. (of wine) tainted in flavor by a cork containing excess tannin
Familiarity information: CORKY used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Declension: comparative and superlative |
Comparative: corkier
Superlative: corkiest
Superlative: corkiest
Sense 1
Meaning:
(of wine) tainted in flavor by a cork containing excess tannin
Synonyms:
corked; corky
Context example:
a corked port
Similar:
bad (having undesirable or negative qualities)
Derivation:
cork (the plug in the mouth of a bottle (especially a wine bottle))
Context examples
"You make me feel uncivilized, Daisy," I confessed on my second glass of corky but rather impressive claret. "Can't you talk about crops or something?"
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
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