Corked vs Corker - What's the difference?
corked | corker |
(cork)
Of a container, especially a bottle, closed with a cork.
* 1994 , Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom , Abacus 2010, p. 554:
Of (a bottle of) wine, tainted by mould/mold in the cork.
One who puts corks into bottles.
*1857 , , The Confidence-Man ,
*:Yes it is, Frank. Don't you see? Laertes is to take the best of care of his friends—his proved friends, on the same principle that a wine-corker takes the best of care of his proved bottles.
(informal) A person or thing that is exceptional or remarkable.
*1889 , ,
*:Well, a body is bound to admit that for just a modest little one-line ad., it's a corker .
As a verb corked
is (cork).As an adjective corked
is of a container, especially a bottle, closed with a cork.As a noun corker is
one who puts corks into bottles.corked
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- Once someone discovered a bottle of wine in the sand that was still corked .
- Waiter, this wine is corked. Could you bring us another bottle?
Anagrams
* *corker
English
Noun
(en noun)chapter 30,
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court,
