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Corker vs Corkier - What's the difference?

corker | corkier |

As a noun corker

is one who puts corks into bottles.

As an adjective corkier is

comparative of corky.

corker

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who puts corks into bottles.
  • *1857 , , The Confidence-Man , chapter 30,
  • *: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 , , A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court ,
  • *:Well, a body is bound to admit that for just a modest little one-line ad., it's a corker .

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    corkier

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (corky)

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    corky

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Of wine, contaminated by a faulty or tainted cork.
    • This one smells a bit corky ; get me another bottle.
  • Consisting of, or like, cork; dry; shrivelled.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Bind fast his corky arms.

    Synonyms

    * (like cork) suberose, suberous (in botany)

    Noun

    (corkies)
  • (AU, slang) An injury caused by a blow ("corking").

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