Cory vs Corky - What's the difference?
cory | corky |
transferred from the surname.
* 2005 Robert L. Fried, The Game of School , Jossey-bass, ISBN 0787973475, page 42:
(less common than the male name) transferred from the surname, also a pet form of Cora, Corinne and similar sounding names.
* 1991 Clark D. Neher, Southeast Asia in the New International Era , Westview Press, ISBN 0813311799, page 58:
* 1998 Robyn Amos, Into the Night , ISBN 0786005599, page 61:
Of wine, contaminated by a faulty or tainted cork.
Consisting of, or like, cork; dry; shrivelled.
* Shakespeare
(AU, slang) An injury caused by a blow ("corking").
As nouns the difference between cory and corky
is that cory is any fish belonging to the genus , a group of south american freshwater catfish while corky is (au|slang) an injury caused by a blow ("corking").As an adjective corky is
of wine, contaminated by a faulty or tainted cork.cory
English
Alternative forms
* Corey * Cori, Kori, Korey, KoryProper noun
(en proper noun)- On another poster are the names of the new class — unusual names (at least to me) like Wen Qi, Elijah, Yoav, Noni, Koray, Cai Ying and Julissa, along with more common names like Cory , Betty, Tammy, Jordan, Jeffrey, and Andrew.
- Corazon "Cory " Aquino, the widow of the martyred Senator Benigno Aquino Jr., emerged as the person around whom all the oppositionists could coalesce.
- I went to high school with a girl named Corrine, though, and everyone called her Cory —
References
Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges : A Dictionary of Surnames. Oxford University Press 1988. English surnames from given namescorky
English
Adjective
(er)- This one smells a bit corky ; get me another bottle.
- Bind fast his corky arms.