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Definition of Corking
1. Adjective. Very good. "You look simply smashing"
Language type: Colloquialism
Similar to: Good
Definition of Corking
1. Verb. (present participle of cork) ¹
2. Adjective. (informal) splendid, enjoyable, bang-up ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Corking
1. cork [v] - See also: cork
Lexicographical Neighbors of Corking
Literary usage of Corking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Arcade Echoes: Selected Poems from the Virginia University Magazine, 1856-1890 by Thomas Longstreet Wood (1894)
"4 M. corking. JSW PETERS. OF all the ills that life entails, The worst, there's
no use talking, Is to sit like an ass In the Moral class, And be corking, ..."
2. The Art of Preserving All Kinds of Animal and Vegetable Substances for by Nicolas Appert (1811)
"The action of the heat within the vessel is such, that the cork swells within,
and the corking is thus rendered perfect, Of corking. ..."
3. The 55th Artillery (C.A.C.) in the American Expeditionary Forces, France, 1918 by Frederick Morse Cutler (1920)
"Foch had assigned to Pershing the task of "corking the bottle." This would have
been undertaken earlier in the war, were it not for the incredible ..."
4. The 55th Artillery (C.A.C.) in the American Expeditionary Forces, France, 1918 by Frederick Morse Cutler (1920)
"Foch had assigned to Pershing the task of "corking the bottle." This would have
been undertaken earlier in the war, were it not for the incredible ..."
5. Freshwater Fishing in Great Britain Other Than Trout Or Salmon by J. P. Wheeldon (1883)
"If the place selected has a bottom tolerably uniform in depth, there is no method
more killing than "tight corking," ie, using a bottom of the finest ..."
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