Superb vs Corker - What's the difference?
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First-rate; of the highest quality; exceptionally good.
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*:Captain Edward Carlisle; he could not tell what this prisoner might do. He cursed the fate which had assigned such a duty, cursed especially that fate which forced a gallant soldier to meet so superb a woman as this under handicap so hard.
Grand; magnificent; august; stately.
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(lb) Haughty.
*1858 , (Julia Kavanagh), Adèle, a Tale: Volume 2 (p.235):
*:A remark which Isabella received with a superb curl of the lip, but at the same time, and to her brother's infinite relief, she walked away.
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 .
Superb is a related term of corker.
As an adjective superb
is .As a noun corker is
one who puts corks into bottles.superb
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Adjective
(er)Synonyms
* excellent * superlativeDerived terms
* superblycorker
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Noun
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