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Corky vs Carky - What's the difference?

corky | carky |

As nouns the difference between corky and carky

is that corky is an injury caused by a blow ("corking") while carky is obsolete spelling of lang=en.

As an adjective corky

is of wine, contaminated by a faulty or tainted cork.

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").

    • Anagrams

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    carky

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • * 1858 , Charles Ball, The History of the Indian Mutiny , volume 6, page 325:
    • The infantry regiments, for the most part, are dressed in linen frocks, dyed carky' or gray slate colour — slate-blue trowsers, and shakoes protected by puggeries, or linen covers, from the sun. The peculiarity of '''carky''' is, that the dyer seems to be unable to match it in any two pieces, and that it exhibits endless varieties of shade, varying with every washing; so that the effect is rather various than pleasing on the march or on the parade-ground. But the officers, as I have said, do not confine themselves to '''carky''' or anything else. The coat may be of any cut or material; but shooting-jackets hold their own in the highest posts, and a ' carky -coloured jerkin, with a few inches of iron curb chain sewed on the shoulders to resist sabre-cuts, is a general favourite.