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Corking   /kˈɔrkɪŋ/   Listen
Corking

adjective
1.
Very good.  Synonyms: bang-up, bully, cracking, dandy, great, groovy, keen, neat, nifty, not bad, peachy, slap-up, smashing, swell.  "A neat sports car" , "Had a great time at the party" , "You look simply smashing"



Cork

verb
(past & past part. corked; pres. part. corking)
1.
Close a bottle with a cork.  Synonym: cork up.  Antonym: uncork.
2.
Stuff with cork.



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"Corking" Quotes from Famous Books



... K. I sent the design up to him when Ernest went in and some new parts ought to be here in a couple of weeks, now. I told Ern to have Hackett deliver them on arrival. It's too complicated to explain to you but I had another corking good idea the day that Dick went. I'm glad Arlington won't get here ...
— The Forbidden Trail • Honore Willsie

... not a moment in pressing my fingers into the hole, and cutting off the run. Then once more corking with the rag, I proceeded to carry out my original design, of making ...
— The Boy Tar • Mayne Reid

... be fun! And then, my dear, we'll give some corking dinners, and my beautiful wife will wear blue velvet, or white ...
— The Story Of Julia Page - Works of Kathleen Norris, Volume V. • Kathleen Norris

... forks of every size and pattern, from the balance handles and straight blades of to-day, to the wooden haft and curly-nosed cimeter of a century back. Their sharpened appetites make short work of the cold meats and pies. Treble X of somebody's own corking fizzes forth from brown jar and black bottle, and if more is wanted, it is fetched from the neighbouring tavern. Dinner done, the fiddle strikes up, and a dance on the greensward by the young people, while the old ones, stretched ...
— Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 441 - Volume 17, New Series, June 12, 1852 • Various

... now. I guess Marsh succeeded in corking it. Meanwhile all the other plants are working while ...
— The Silver Horde • Rex Beach


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